1677 in science

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The year 1677 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

• Publication of the first English star atlas, John Seller's Atlas Coelestis.

Mathematics

• Publication of Cocker's Arithmetick: Being a Plain and Familiar Method Suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country, attributed to Edward Cocker (died 1676). It will remain a standard grammar school textbook in England for more than 150 years.^[1]

Medicine

• January 21 – A pamphlet on smallpox published in Boston becomes the first medical publication in the British colonies in North America.

Microbiology

• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovers the spermatozoon.

Paleontology

• Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England, in which he describes the fossilised femur of a human giant, now known to be from the dinosaur Megalosaurus.

Births

• February 8 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (died 1756)
• September 27 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (died 1750)

Deaths

• May 4 – Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (born 1616)
• May 23 (bur.) – John Kersey, English mathematician (born 1677)
• October 11 – Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch-born drainage engineer (born 1595).^[2]
• October 14 – Francis Glisson, English physician (born 1599?)

References

1. Yeldham, Florence (1936). The Teaching of Arithmetic Through Four Hundred Years (1535–1935). London: Harrap. OCLC 152432557.
2. Harris, L. E. (1953). Vermuyden and the Fens. London: Cleaver-Hume Press. ASIN B0000CILLT.