Editing 1661 in science

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The year '''1661 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Biology==
* [[Marcello Malpighi]] is the first to observe and correctly describe [[Capillary|capillaries]] when he discovers them in a frog's lung.<ref>{{cite book|title=Blood Vessels|last=Cliff|first=W. J.|year=1976|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-20753-3|page=14}}</ref>

==Chemistry==
* [[Robert Boyle]]'s ''[[The Sceptical Chymist]]'' is published in [[London]].

==Environment==
* [[John Evelyn]]'s pamphlet ''[[Fumifugium]]'' is one of the earliest descriptions of [[air pollution]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The London Encyclopaedia|first1=Ben|last1=Weinreb|first2=Cristopher|last2=Hibbert|publisher=Macmillan|year=1995|isbn=0-333-57688-8}}</ref>

==Publications==
* [[Abraham Cowley]]'s pamphlet ''The Advancement of Experimental Philosophy''.
* [[Johann Sperling]]'s handbook ''Zoologia physica'' (posthumous).

==Births==
* May 3 – [[Antonio Vallisneri]], [[Italian people|Italian]] [[physician]] and natural scientist (died [[1730 in science|1730]])
* December 18 – [[Christopher Polhem]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] scientist and inventor (died [[1751 in science|1751]])
* [[Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital]], [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]] (died [[1704 in science|1704]])
* ''approx. date'' – [[Alida Withoos]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[botanical artist]] (died 1730)

==Events==
* [[Isaac Newton]] is admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a sizar (June)

==Deaths==
* October – [[Gérard Desargues]], French [[geometer]] (born [[1591 in science|1591]])

==References==
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