1678 in science
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The year 1678 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Edmund Halley publishes a catalogue of 341 southern stars - the first systematic southern sky survey.
[edit] Physics
- Christiaan Huygens publishes his Traité de la Lumière/Treatise on Light, which states his principle of wavefront sources.
- Robert Hooke discovers the fundamental law of elasticity when he finds that the stress (force) exerted is proportional to the strain (elongation) produced.
[edit] Zoology
- Publication of English Spiders by Martin Lister, the first book devoted to spiders.
[edit] Births
- July 16 — Jakob Hermann, mathematician (died 1733)
- November 26 — Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist (died 1771)
- October 27 — Pierre Raymond de Montmort, mathematician (died 1719)
- unknown — Pierre Fauchard, physician and "father of modern dentistry" (died 1761)
