1675 in science
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The year 1675 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- March 4 – John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal of England.[1][2]
- Giovanni Cassini discovers Saturn's Cassini Division.
Exploration
- The Antarctic Convergence is first crossed by Anthony de la Roché, who lands on South Georgia.[3]
Mathematics
- November 11 – German polymath Gottfried Leibniz uses infinitesimal calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of the function y=f(x).
Births
- February 28 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (died 1726)
Deaths
- October – James Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (born 1638)
- October 27 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (born 1602)
- November 11 – Thomas Willis, English physician (born 1621)
- approx. date – John Jonston, Polish naturalist and physician (born 1603)
References
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 191–192. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Willmoth, Frances (2004). "Flamsteed, John (1646–1719)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-02-04. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Headland, Robert (1992). The Island of South Georgia (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-42474-7.
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