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The year '''1667 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* June 24 – The site of the [[Paris Observatory]] is located on the [[Paris Meridian]].

==Chemistry==
* [[Johann Joachim Becher]] originates what will become known as [[phlogiston theory]] in his ''Physical Education''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bowler|first=Peter J.|title=Making modern science: A historical survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-V9jM4FkUacC|year=2005|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=60|isbn=9780226068602}}</ref>

==History and philosophy of science==
* [[Thomas Sprat]] publishes ''[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_g30OAAAAQAAJ The History of the Royal-Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge]''.

==Mathematics==
* [[James Gregory (mathematician)|James Gregory]] demonstrates the transcendence of [[Pi|π]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Matthew|last=Richardson|title=The Penguin Book of Firsts|year=2001|publisher=Penguin Books India|location=New Delhi|isbn=0-14-302771-9|page=184}}</ref>

==Physiology and medicine==
* June 15 – [[Jean-Baptiste Denys]] performs the first [[blood transfusion]] from a lamb into a boy.
* [[Robert Hooke]] demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for [[Respiration (physiology)|respiration]].
* [[Thomas Willis]] publishes ''Pathologicae Cerebri, et nervosi generis specimen''.

==Publications==
[[Image:Steensen - Elementorum myologiae specimen, 1669 - 4715289.tif|thumb|''Elementorum myologiae specimen'', 1669]]
* [[Nicolas Steno]] publishes ''Elementorum Myologiae Specimen, seu Musculi Descriptio Geometrica. Cui accedunt canis carchariae dissectum caput, et dissectus piscis ex canum genere'' in [[Florence]], providing a foundation for the study of [[muscle]] mechanics, the [[ovary]] (based on his dissection of [[dogfish (disambiguation)|dogfish]]), and the sedimentary theory of geology.<ref>{{cite book|title=Nicolaus Steno (Niels Stensen) and Erasmus Bartholinus: two 17th century Danish scientists and the foundation of exact geology and crystallography|first=Axel|last=Garboe|location=Copenhagen|publisher=Reitzel|year=1954}}</ref>

==Births==
* April 29 ''(bapt.)'' – [[John Arbuthnot]], [[Scotland|Scottish]]-born [[polymath]] (died [[1735 in science|1735]])
* May 2 – [[Jacob Christoph Le Blon]], [[German people|German]] inventor of [[four-colour printing]] (died [[1741 in science|1741]])
* May 26 – [[Abraham de Moivre]], [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]] (died [[1754 in science|1754]])
* July 27 – [[Johann Bernoulli]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] mathematician (died [[1748 in science|1748]])

==Deaths==
* April 3 – [[Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester]], [[English people|English]] inventor (born [[1601 in science|1601?]])
* April 10 – [[Jan Marek Marci]], [[Bohemia]]n [[physician]] (born [[1595 in science|1595]])
* June 5 – [[Grégoire de Saint-Vincent]], [[Flemish people|Flemish]] mathematician (born [[1584 in science|1584]])
* ''probable date'' – [[Peter Mundy]], English traveller (born c. 1596)

==References==
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