Editing 1677 in science

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The year '''1677 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* Publication of the first English [[star atlas]], John Seller's ''Atlas Coelestis''.

==Mathematics==
* [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] gives a complete solution to the [[tangent problem]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kreyszig|first=Erwin|title=Differential Geometry|isbn=978-0-486-66721-8|year=1991|publisher=Courier Corporation}}</ref>
* Publication of ''[[Cocker's Arithmetick]]: Being a Plain and Familiar Method Suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country'', attributed to [[Edward Cocker]] (died 1676). It will remain a standard [[grammar school]] textbook in [[England]] for more than 150 years.<ref>{{cite book|last=Yeldham|first=Florence|title=The Teaching of Arithmetic Through Four Hundred Years (1535–1935)|location=London|publisher=Harrap|year=1936|oclc=152432557}}</ref>

==Medicine==
* January 21 – A pamphlet on [[smallpox]] published in [[Boston]] becomes the first medical publication in the [[British colonies in North America]].

==Microbiology==
* [[Antonie van Leeuwenhoek]] discovers the [[spermatozoon]].

==Paleontology==
* [[Robert Plot]] publishes ''The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England'', in which he describes the fossilised femur of a human giant, now known to be from the [[dinosaur]] ''[[Megalosaurus]]''.

==Births==
* February 8 – [[Jacques Cassini]], [[French people|French]] [[astronomer]] (died [[1756 in science|1756]])
* September 17 – [[Stephen Hales]], [[English people|English]] [[physiologist]] and clergyman (died [[1761 in science|1761]])
* September 27 – [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]], [[German people|German]] [[mathematician]], astronomer and [[cartographer]] (died [[1750 in science|1750]])

==Deaths==
* May 4 – [[Isaac Barrow]], [[English people|English]] [[mathematician]] (born [[1630 in science|1630]])
* May 23 ''(bur.)'' – [[John Kersey the elder|John Kersey]], English mathematician (born 1677)
* October 11 – Sir [[Cornelius Vermuyden]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]]-born drainage engineer (born [[1595 in science|1595]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Harris|first=L. E.|year=1953|title=Vermuyden and the Fens|asin=B0000CILLT|publisher=Cleaver-Hume Press|location=London}}</ref>
* October 14 – [[Francis Glisson]], English [[physician]] (born [[1599 in science|1599?]])

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