1670-1680

By justencole

  • 1670

    1670
    Jean Picard calculated the diameter of the earth by 0.44%

  • 1671

    1671
    The Paris Observatory was made it was the first such astronomy national institution. The paris observatory also published the first almanac.

  • Thomas Willis

    Thomas Willis
    the first english work on Medical Physcology was published titled " The Soul of Brutes"

  • John Kersey

    John Kersey
    John Kersey published The Elements of that Mathematical Art commonly known as Algebra.

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
    Leeuwhenhoek discovered the first singled celled organism

  • John Flamsteed

    John Flamsteed
    John Flamstead was appointed the first astronomical observer which made him the first Astronomer Royal of England at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.

  • Ole Romer

    Ole Romer
    Danish astronomer Ole Romer measures the speed of light by observing the eclipses of Jupiter's moons, obtaining a speed of 140,000 miles per second.

  • first medical pamphlet

    first medical pamphlet
    The first Medical pamphlets on smallpox was publishe in Boston

  • Elena Cornaro Piscopia

    Elena Cornaro Piscopia
    Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia becames the first woman to be awarded a university degree. She recieved a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Padua.

  • Boston fire

    Boston fire
    A fire in Boston, Massachusetts, burns all of the warehouses, 80 houses, and all of the ships in the dockyards.

  • First Tornado

    First Tornado
    The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 8, 1680.