Editing 1680 in science

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The year '''1680 in science''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* 14 November [[Old Style and New Style dates|NS]] – [[Great Comet of 1680]] observed by [[Gottfried Kirch]], the first [[comet]] discovered by [[telescope]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.att.net/~jwwerner51/Comet.html|title=The Great Comet of 1680|first=James W|last=Werner|accessdate=2006-02-05|archive-date=24 June 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060624133119/http://home.att.net/~jwwerner51/Comet.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Biology==
* English [[Comparative anatomy|comparative anatomist]] [[Edward Tyson]] publishes ''Phocæna, or The anatomy of a porpess, dissected at Gresham Colledge'', concluding that the [[porpoise]] is a [[mammal]].
* [[Robert Morison]] publishes ''Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis, Pars Secunda, seu Herbarum Distributio Nova per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis ex Libro Naturae observata et detecta'', utilising his method of [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Oliver|first=Francis Wall|title=Makers of British Botany|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1913|pages=15–16|chapter=Robert Morison 1620–1683...|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Makers_of_British_botany/Robert_Morison_1620%E2%80%941683_and_John_Ray_1627%E2%80%941705| accessdate= 2 April 2011 <!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref>

==Chemistry==
* 30 September – [[Robert Boyle]] reports to the [[Royal Society]] of London his manufacture of [[phosphorus]]. He uses it to ignite sulfur-tipped wooden splints, forerunners of the [[match]].<ref>{{cite book|first=N. C.|last=Datta|title=The Story of Chemistry|publisher=Universities Press|year=2005|page=74}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Metabolism of the Anthroposphere|first1=Peter|last1=Baccini|first2=Paul H.|last2=Brunner|publisher=MIT Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0262300544|page=288}}</ref>

==Physics==
* 8 July – [[Robert Hooke]] observes the [[cymatics|nodal patterns]] associated with the vibrations of glass plates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/chladni.html|title=Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni|publisher=Institute for Learning Technologies, [[Columbia University]]| accessdate= 8 May 2011 <!--Added by DASHBot-->| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110514140121/http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/chladni.html| archivedate= 14 May 2011 <!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryscient00dain/page/n208 101]|title=Oxford Dictionary of Scientists|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryscient00dain|url-access=limited|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999}}</ref>

==Births==
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==Deaths==
* 17 February – [[Jan Swammerdam]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[natural history|naturalist]], founder of both [[comparative anatomy]] and [[entomology]] (born [[1637 in science|1637]])
* 22 March – [[François Cureau de La Chambre]], [[French people|French]] [[physician]] (born [[1630 in science|1630]])<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktNVifjcOcAC&pg=PA269 |title=L'Anthropologie |date=1894 |publisher=Masson. |pages=270 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[Marie Meurdrac]], French chemist and alchemist (born [[1610 in science|1610]])

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