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1684 in science

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The year 1684 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

December 10 – Edmond Halley presents the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, containing Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (incorporating inverse-square force) from his theory of gravity, to the Royal Society in London.

Mathematics

Gottfried Leibniz publishes the first account of differential calculus.

Publications

Robert Boyle publishes Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, the first work on this topic.
Raymond Vieussens publishes Neurographia universalis, a "pioneering work" on the nervous system.

Births

Celia Grillo Borromeo, Italian scientist and mathematician (died 1777)

Deaths

April 5 – William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, English mathematician (born 1620)
May 11 – Daniel Whistler, English physician (born c. 1619)
May 12 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist known for his recognition of Boyle's law (born 1620)
October – Dud Dudley, English metallurgist (born 1600?)

References

(December 2012). "Raymond de Vieussens and his contribution to the study of white matter anatomy". Journal of Neurosurgery.

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