The year 1680 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

• 14 November NS - Great Comet of 1680 observed by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered by telescope.^[1]

Botany

• Robert Morison publishes Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis, Pars Secunda, seu Herbarum Distributio Nova per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis ex Libro Naturae observata et detecta, utilising his method of taxonomy.^[2]

Physics

• 8 July - Robert Hooke observes the nodal patterns associated with the vibrations of glass plates.^[3][4]

Births

Deaths

• 17 February - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, founder of both comparative anatomy and entomology (born 1637)

References

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