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The year 1661 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Biology

  • Marcello Malpighi is the first to observe and correctly describe capillaries when he discovers them in a frog's lung.

Chemistry

  • Robert Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist is published in London.

Environment

  • c. May 1 – John Evelyn's pamphlet Fumifugium is one of the earliest descriptions of air pollution.

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

  • October – Gérard Desargues, French geometer (born 1591)

References