Editing 1687 in science

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The year '''1687 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* The constellation ''[[Triangulum Minus]]'' is named by [[Johannes Hevelius]].
==Biology==
* [[Alida Withoos]] at the house of [[Agnes Block]] makes a painting of the first [[pineapple]] bred in Europe.

==Medicine==
* Dutch physician [[Willem ten Rhijne]] publishes ''Verhandelinge van de Asiatise Melaatsheid na een naaukeuriger ondersoek ten dienste van het gemeen'' in Amsterdam, explaining Asian [[leprosy]] to the West.

==Physics==
* July 5 – [[Isaac Newton]]'s ''[[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'', known as the  ''Principia'', is published by the [[Royal Society]] of [[London]]. In it, Newton describes his theory of [[universal gravitation]], explains the laws of [[mechanics]] (including [[Newton's laws of motion]]), gives a formula for the [[speed of sound]] and demonstrates that Earth is an oblate spheroid. The concepts in the ''Principia'' become the foundations of modern [[physics]].
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==Births==
* October 14 – [[Robert Simson]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[mathematician]] (died [[1768 in science|1768]]).

==Deaths==
* January 28 – [[Johannes Hevelius]], German [[astronomer]] (born [[1611 in science|1611]]).

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