1672 in science
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The year 1672 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Technology
[edit] Astronomy
- John Flamsteed determines the solar parallax from observations of Mars.
- Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn.
- Sir Isaac Newton reads 1st Optiks paper before Royal Society of London.
[edit] Publications
- Paul Barbette - Opera omnia medica et chirurgica
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Simon Dezhnev, Russian Cossack navigator, who in 1648 made the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait (born 1605)
