First attempt to manufacture graphite drawing sticks from powdered
graphite (mixed with
sulphur and
antimony), in
Nuremberg, Germany.
Physics
Robert Boyle publishes
Boyle's law, in the second edition of his New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching The Spring of the Air, and its Effects (
Oxford).[1]
Statistics
John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of
statistics, publishes information about births and deaths in
London.