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1660 in science
The year
1660 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Events
November 28 â At
Gresham College
in
London
, twelve men, including
Christopher Wren
,
Robert Boyle
,
John Wilkins
and
Robert Moray
, meet after a lecture by Wren and resolve to found "a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning", which will become the
Royal Society
.
Botany
John Ray
publishes
Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium
in
Cambridge
, the first
flora
of an
English county
.
Mathematics
The popular English-language edition by
Isaac Barrow
of
Euclid's
Elements
is published in London.
Physics
Robert Boyle
publishes
New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects
(the second edition in
1662
will contain
Boyle's law
).
Robert Hooke
conceives
Hooke's law
(but does not publish it in full until
1678
).
Zoology
Jan Goedart
begins publication of
Metamorphosis Naturalis
in
Middelburg, Zeeland
, containing detailed illustrated descriptions of insect
metamorphosis
.
Births
February 19 âÂÂ
Friedrich Hoffmann
,
German
physician
and
chemist
(died
1742
)
April 16 âÂÂ
Hans Sloane
,
Ulster Scots
-born collector and physician (died
1753
)
March 15 âÂÂ
Olof Rudbeck the Younger
,
Swedish
naturalist
(died
1740
)
May 27 (
bapt.
) âÂÂ
Francis Hauksbee
,
English
scientific instrument maker and experimentalist (died
1713
)
approx. date
âÂÂ
Edward Lhuyd
,
Welsh
naturalist (died
1709
)
Date unknown âÂÂ
Jeanne Dumée
, French
astronomer
(born 1660)
Deaths
May 29 âÂÂ
Frans van Schooten
,
Dutch
Cartesian
mathematician
(born
1615
)
June 30 âÂÂ
William Oughtred
,
English
mathematician who invented the
slide rule
(born
1574
)
Jean-Jacques Chifflet
,
French
physician
and
antiquary
(born
1588
)
Walter Rumsey
, Welsh
judge
and amateur scientist (born
1584
)
References