Editing 1660 in science

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The year '''1660 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Events==
* November 28 – At [[Gresham College]] in [[London]], twelve men, including [[Christopher Wren]], [[Robert Boyle]], [[John Wilkins]] and [[Robert Moray]], meet after a lecture by Wren and resolve to found "a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning", which will become the [[Royal Society]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>

==Botany==
* [[John Ray]] publishes ''Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium'' in [[Cambridge]], the first [[Flora (publication)|flora]] of an [[Counties of England|English county]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Frank N.|last=Egerton|title=A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 18: John Ray and His Associates Francis Willughby and William Derham|url=http://www.esapubs.org/bulletin/current/history_list/history18.pdf|journal=Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America|date=October 2005|pages=301–313}}</ref>

==Mathematics==
* The popular English-language edition by [[Isaac Barrow]] of [[Euclid's Elements|Euclid's ''Elements'']] is published in London.

==Physics==
* [[Robert Boyle]] publishes ''New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects'' (the second edition in [[1662 in science|1662]] will contain [[Boyle's law]]).
* [[Robert Hooke]] conceives [[Hooke's law]] (but does not publish it in full until [[1678 in science|1678]]).<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Hooke|title=Lectures ''De Potentia Restitutiva'', or of Spring. Explaining the Power of Springing Bodies|url=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_lectures-de-potentia-res_hooke-robert_1678 |publisher=The Royal Society|location=London|year=1678}}</ref>

==Zoology==
* [[Jan Goedart]] begins publication of ''Metamorphosis Naturalis'' in [[Middelburg, Zeeland]], containing detailed illustrated descriptions of insect [[metamorphosis]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Johannes Goedaert: Fijnschilder en entomoloog|year=2016|editor-last=Beaart|editor-first=Kees|language=nl|publisher=Nehalennia|location=[Middelburg]|isbn=978-90-805985-6-0}}</ref>

==Births==
* February 19 – [[Friedrich Hoffmann]], [[German people|German]] [[physician]] and [[chemist]] (died [[1742 in science|1742]])
* April 16 – [[Hans Sloane]], [[Ulster Scots people|Ulster Scots]]-born collector and physician (died [[1753 in science|1753]])
* March 15 – [[Olof Rudbeck the Younger]], [[Swedes|Swedish]] [[naturalist]] (died [[1740 in science|1740]])
* May 27 (''bapt.'') – [[Francis Hauksbee]], [[English people|English]] scientific instrument maker and experimentalist (died [[1713 in science|1713]])
* ''approx. date'' – [[Edward Lhuyd]], [[Welsh people|Welsh]] naturalist (died [[1709 in science|1709]])
* Date unknown – [[Jeanne Dumée]], French [[astronomer]] (born 1660)

==Deaths==
* May 29 – [[Frans van Schooten]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[René Descartes|Cartesian]] [[mathematician]] (born [[1615 in science|1615]])
* June 30 – [[William Oughtred]], [[English people|English]] mathematician who invented the [[slide rule]] (born [[1574 in science|1574]])
* [[Jean-Jacques Chifflet]], [[French people|French]] [[physician]] and [[antiquary]] (born [[1588 in science|1588]])
* [[Walter Rumsey]], Welsh [[judge]] and amateur scientist (born [[1584 in science|1584]])

==References==
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