1668 in science

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The year 1668 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

Francesco Redi publishes Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione degl'Insetti ("Experiments on the Generation of Insects"), disproving theories of the spontaneous generation of maggots in putrefying matter.

Nicholas Mercator and William Brouncker discover an infinite series for the logarithm while attempting to calculate the area under a hyperbolic segment.

François Mauriceau publishes Traité des Maladies des Femmes Grosses et Accouchées in Paris, a key text in scientific obstetrics.[1]
John Mayow publishes a tract on respiration in Oxford, recognising "spiritus nitro-aereus" as a component of air, prefiguring the isolation of oxygen.

John Wilkins publishes An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language proposing a universal language and a uniform system of measurement for international communication between natural philosophers.

December 31 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician and chemist who makes Leiden a European centre of medical knowledge (died 1738)

gollark: We are at the very least increasing awareness.

gollark: Where would you get ice? Why would you have it lying around?

gollark: Just like them then.

gollark: Just slow down the molecules in water?

gollark: Rotate a few octillion apio forms.

Morton, Leslie T. (1943). A Medical Bibliography; a check-list of texts illustrating the history of the medical sciences. London: Grafton.

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