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The year 1676 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- Summer – The Royal Greenwich Observatory, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed near London.[1]
- December 7 – Danish astronomer Ole Rømer measures the speed of light by observing the eclipses of Jupiter's moons, obtaining a speed of 140,000 miles per second (approximately 25% too slow).
- Edmond Halley arrives on the island of Saint Helena, having left the University of Oxford, and sets up an astronomical observatory to catalogue stars from the Southern Hemisphere.
Biology
- Francis Willughby's Ornithologiae is published by John Ray, the foundation of scientific ornithology.[3][4][5][6]
Medicine
- William Briggs publishes an anatomy of the eye (the first in England), Ophthalmographia, at Cambridge.[7]
- Thomas Sydenham publishes the textbook Observationes mediciae, the enlarged 3rd edition of his Methodus curandi febres.
Paleontology
- The first Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.[8]
Technology
- July 7 – The first Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Births
- May 28 – Italian mathematician (died 1754)
- botanist (died 1728)
- Maria Clara Eimmart, German astronomer, engraver and designer (died 1707)
Deaths
- May 25 – Johann Rahn, Swiss mathematician (born 1622)
- September 4 – cartographer (born 1600)
References
- Chambers, R. (1878). The Book of Days.
- ^ "How bacteria was discovered by the father of microbiology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek". India Today. September 17, 2018. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
- . Retrieved 2011-04-26.
- ^ Keynes, Sir Geoffrey (1976). John Ray, 1627–1705: a bibliography 1660–1970. Amsterdam: Van Heusden. p. 52.
- ^ Raven, Charles E. (1942). John Ray, naturalist: his life and works. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Newton, Alfred (1893). Dictionary of Birds. London: Black.
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- ISBN 0-253-33349-0.