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1670 in science

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The year 1670 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Botany

Earth sciences

  • Jean Picard calculates the Earth radius to within 0.44% of the modern value.[3]
  • Agostino Scilla publishes La vana speculazione disingannata dal senso: lettera risponsiva c. i corpi marini, che petrificati si trovano in varii luoghi terrestri ("Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense") in Naples, arguing for an organic origin for fossils.[4]

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