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1671 in science
Summary
The year
1671 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
List of years in science
(
table
)
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Science +...
Astronomy
edit
Completion of
Paris Observatory
, the world's first such national institution.
[1]
February 27 – The
Ortenau
meteorite lands in Germany.
October 25 – Italian-born French astronomer
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
discovers
Iapetus
, the second known moon of the planet
Saturn
.
Mathematics
edit
James Gregory
develops a series expansion for the
inverse tangent
function and discovers
Taylor's theorem
.
Sawaguchi Kazuyuki
(
沢口 一之
)
publishes
Kokin-Sanpo-Ki
(古今算法之記), in which he gives the first comprehensive applied account of
Chinese
algebra
in
Japan
.
Medicine
edit
Publication of
Les secrets de la medecine des Chinois
, the first Western book on traditional Eastern medicine, in
Grenoble
.
Publication of
Jane Sharp
's
The Midwives Book: or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered
, the first on the subject to be written by an Englishwoman.
[2]
Physics
edit
Jacques Rohault
publishes
Traité de physique
in Paris, disseminating
Cartesian physics
.
Technology
edit
March 31 – The English
Royal Navy
launches
HMS
Royal James
at
Portsmouth Royal Dockyard
, its first warship to have a frame reinforced by iron bars rather than an all wooden ship, an innovation by naval architect
Anthony Deane
.
Births
edit
October 1 –
Guido Grandi
,
Italian
mathematician
(died
1742
)
Deaths
edit
June 25 –
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
, Italian
astronomer
(born
1598
)
References
edit
^
"Observatory of Paris". Paris Walking Tours
. Retrieved
2011-05-10
.
^
Bosanquet, Anna (2009). "Inspiration from the past (1) Jane Sharp"
(PDF)
.
The Practising Midwife
.
12
(8): 33–35.
PMID
19813367.