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1687 in science
Overview of the events of 1687 in science
List of years in science
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table
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1687 in science
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Fields
Archaeology
Technology
Sustainable energy research
Transportation technology
Social sciences
Psychology
Governance and policy studies
Paleontology
Dinosaurs' extinction
Extraterrestrial environment
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Tornado research
Other/related
Literature
Timeline of cosmological theories
List of open letters by academics
History of technology by type
List of science timelines
v
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e
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
.
Births
October 14 –
Robert Simson
,
Scottish
mathematician
(died
1768
).
Deaths
January 28 –
Johannes Hevelius
, German
astronomer
(born
1611
).