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The year
1660 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Events
November 28 – 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
.
[1]
Botany
John Ray
publishes
Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium
in
Cambridge
, the first
flora
of an
English county
.
[2]
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
).
Births
February 19 –
Friedrich Hoffmann
,
German
physician
and
chemist
(died
1742
)
April 16 –
Hans Sloane
,
Ulster Scots
-born collector and physician (died
1753
)
March 15 –
Olof Rudbeck the Younger
,
Swedish
naturalist
(died
1740
)
May 27 (
bapt.
) –
Francis Hauksbee
,
English
scientific instrument maker and experimentalist (died
1713
)
approx. date
–
Edward Lhuyd
,
Welsh
naturalist (died
1709
)
Date unknown –
Jeanne Dumée
, French
astronomer
(born 1660)
Deaths
May 29 –
Frans van Schooten
,
Dutch
Cartesian
mathematician
(born
1615
)
June 30 –
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
^
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0
.
^
Egerton, Frank N. (October 2005).
"A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 18: John Ray and His Associates Francis Willughby and William Derham"
(PDF)
.
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
: 301–313.
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