The year 1677 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Publication of the first English
star atlas, John Seller's Atlas Coelestis.
Mathematics
Publication of Cocker's Arithmetick: Being a Plain and Familiar Method Suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country, attributed to
Edward Cocker (died 1676). It will remain a standard
grammar school textbook in
England for more than 150 years.[1]
Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England, in which he describes the fossilised femur of a human giant, now known to be from the
dinosaurMegalosaurus.