Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general/1668-in-science

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

1668 in science

none

none

The year 1668 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

  • Isaac Newton invents the reflecting telescope.

Biology

  • Francesco Redi publishes Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione degl'Insetti ("Experiments on the Generation of Insects"), disproving theories of the spontaneous generation of maggots in putrefying matter.

Mathematics

  • Nicholas Mercator and William Brouncker discover an infinite series for the logarithm while attempting to calculate the area under a hyperbolic segment.

Medicine

  • François Mauriceau publishes Traité des Maladies des Femmes Grosses et Accouchées in Paris, a key text in scientific obstetrics.
  • John Mayow publishes a tract on respiration in Oxford, recognising "spiritus nitro-aereus" as a component of air, prefiguring the isolation of oxygen.

Publications

  • John Wilkins publishes An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language proposing a universal language and a uniform system of measurement for international communication between natural philosophers.

Births

  • December 31 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician and chemist who makes Leiden a European centre of medical knowledge (died 1738)

Deaths

References

References

  1. Morton, Leslie T.. (1943). "A Medical Bibliography; a check-list of texts illustrating the history of the medical sciences". Grafton.
Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

1668-in-science 17th-century-in-science 1660s-in-science
Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about 1668 in science — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report