1661 in science
The year 1661 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Biology
- Marcello Malpighi is the first to observe and correctly describe capillaries when he discovers them in a frog's lung.[1]
Chemistry
- Robert Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist is published in London.
Environment
- John Evelyn's pamphlet Fumifugium is one of the earliest descriptions of air pollution.[2]
Publications
- Abraham Cowley's pamphlet The Advancement of Experimental Philosophy.
- Johann Sperling's handbook Zoologia physica (posthumous).
Births
- May 3 – Antonio Vallisneri, Italian physician and natural scientist (died 1730)
- December 18 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (died 1751)
- Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (died 1704)
- approx. date – Alida Withoos, Dutch botanical artist (died 1730)
Events
- Isaac Newton is admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a sizar (June)
Deaths
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References
- Cliff, W. J. (1976). Blood Vessels. Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN 0-521-20753-3.
- Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Cristopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
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