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1687 in science
The year 1687 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
• The constellation
Triangulum Minus
is named by
Johannes Hevelius
. ==Biology==
Biology
•
Alida Withoos
at the house of
Agnes Block
makes a painting of the first
pineapple
bred in Europe. ==Medicine==
Medicine
• Dutch physician
Willem ten Rhijne
publishes
Verhandelinge van de Asiatise Melaatsheid na een naaukeuriger ondersoek ten dienste van het gemeen
in Amsterdam, explaining Asian
leprosy
to the West. ==Physics==
Physics
• July 5 –
Isaac Newton
's
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
, known as the
Principia
, is published by the
Royal Society
of
London
. In it, Newton describes his theory of
universal gravitation
, explains the laws of
mechanics
(including
Newton's laws of motion
), gives a formula for the
speed of sound
and demonstrates that Earth is an oblate spheroid. The concepts in the
Principia
become the foundations of modern
physics
. ==Births==
Births
• October 14 –
Robert Simson
,
Scottish
mathematician
(died
1768
). ==Deaths==
Deaths
• January 28 –
Johannes Hevelius
, German
astronomer
(born
1611
).
Source: Wikipedia ↗
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