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1680 in science

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The year 1680 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

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Biology

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  • English comparative anatomist Edward Tyson publishes Phocæna, or The anatomy of a porpess, dissected at Gresham Colledge, concluding that the porpoise is a mammal.g
  • Robert Morison publishes Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis, Pars Secunda, seu Herbarum Distributio Nova per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis ex Libro Naturae observata et detecta, utilising his method of taxonomy.[2]

Chemistry

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Physics

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Werner, James W. "The Great Comet of 1680". Archived from the original on 24 June 2006. Retrieved 5 February 2006.
  2. ^ Oliver, Francis Wall (1913). "Robert Morison 1620–1683...". Makers of British Botany. Cambridge University Press. pp. 15–16. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
  3. ^ Datta, N. C. (2005). The Story of Chemistry. Universities Press. p. 74.
  4. ^ Baccini, Peter; Brunner, Paul H. (2012). Metabolism of the Anthroposphere. MIT Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0262300544.
  5. ^ "Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni". Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
  6. ^ Oxford Dictionary of Scientists. Oxford University Press. 1999. p. 101.
  7. ^ L'Anthropologie (in French). Masson. 1894. p. 270.