Editing 1679 in science

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The year '''1679 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Botany==
* Establishment of [[Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam)]].

==Mathematics==
* [[Samuel Morland]] publishes ''The Doctrine of Interest, both Simple & Compound'', probably the first tables produced with the aid of a [[calculating machine]].<ref>{{cite book|first=H. W.|last=Dickinson|title=Sir Samuel Morland: diplomat and inventor 1625-1695|url=https://archive.org/details/sirsamuelmorland0000dick|url-access=registration|location=Cambridge|publisher=Heffer for the Newcomen Society|year=1970|isbn=0-85270-061-X}}</ref>

==Medicine==
* [[Great Plague of Vienna]].
* [[Franciscus Sylvius]]' ''Opera Medica'', published posthumously, recognizes [[scrofula]] and phthisis as forms of [[tuberculosis]].

==Technology==
* [[Pierre-Paul Riquet]] excavates [[Malpas Tunnel]] on the [[Canal du Midi]] in [[Hérault]], France, Europe's first navigable canal tunnel (165 m, concrete lined).<ref>{{cite book|last=Roland|first=Claudine|title=The Canal du Midi|year=1997|publisher=MSM|isbn=2-909998-66-5}}</ref>

==Zoology==
[[File:Bildnis der Maria Sibylla Merian, 1679.jpg|thumb|[[Maria Sibylla Merian]] in 1679]]
* [[Maria Sibylla Merian]] publishes the first part of ''Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandlung und sonderbare Blumennahrung'' ("The Caterpillars' Marvellous Transformation and Strange Floral Food"), comprising detailed illustrated descriptions of insect [[metamorphosis]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Etheridge|first=Kay|title=The Flowering of Ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian's Caterpillar Book|year=2020|publisher=Brill}}</ref>

==Publications==
* Publication in [[Paris]] of the first of [[Edme Mariotte]]'s ''Essays de physique'': ''De la végétation des plantes'', a pioneering discussion of [[plant physiology]]; and ''De la nature de l'air'', a statement of [[Boyle's law]].
* Publication by the [[Paris Observatory]] of the world's first national [[ephemeris]] [[almanac]], the ''[[Connaissance des Temps|Connaissance des tems]]'', compiled by [[Jean Picard]].

==Births==
* January 2 – [[Pierre Fauchard]], [[French people|French]] [[physician]] (died [[1761 in science|1761]]).<ref>{{Cite web |language=fr |author=Jean-François Vincent |title=Fauchard, Pierre  |publisher=Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé, Université de Paris (Base biographique) |url=https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/biographies/index.php?cle=6108 |access-date=2021-02-08 |website=www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr}}</ref>
* January 24 – [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]], [[Germany|German]] [[philosopher]], [[mathematician]] and [[scientist]] (died [[1754 in science|1754]])

==Deaths==
* January 14 – [[Jacques de Billy]], [[France|French]] [[Jesuit]] mathematician (born [[1602 in science|1602]])

==References==
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