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{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> {{Year nav topic5|1678|science}} {{Science year nav|1678}} The year '''1678 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events. ==Astronomy== * [[Edmund Halley]] publishes a catalogue of 341 southern stars—the first systematic southern sky survey. ==Physics== * [[Christiaan Huygens]] publishes his ''[[Traité de la Lumière]]/Treatise on Light'', which states his [[Huygens' principle|principle]] of wavefront sources. * [[Robert Hooke]] publishes in full [[Hooke's law]], the fundamental law of [[Elasticity (physics)|elasticity]]: stress (force) exerted is proportional to the strain (elongation) produced (''ut tensio, sic vis'' ("as the extension, so the force" or "the extension is proportional to the force")).<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== * Publication of ''English Spiders'' by [[Martin Lister]], the first book devoted to [[spider]]s. ==Births== * April 14 – [[Abraham Darby I]], [[ironmaster]] (died [[1717 in science|1717]]) * July 16 – [[Jakob Hermann]], [[mathematician]] (died [[1733 in science|1733]]) * October 27 – [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort]], mathematician (died [[1719 in science|1719]]) * November 26 – [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]], [[geophysicist]] (died [[1771 in science|1771]]) * December 2 – [[Nicolaas Kruik]] (Cruquius), [[cartographer]] and [[meteorologist]] (died [[1754 in science|1754]]) * ''unknown'' – [[Pierre Fauchard]], [[physician]] and "father of modern dentistry" (died [[1761 in science|1761]]) ==Deaths== * November 28 – [[Willem Piso]], physician and [[naturalist]] (born [[1611 in science|1611]]) ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:1678 in science| ]] [[Category:17th century in science]] [[Category:1670s in science]]
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