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1672 in science

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1672 in science
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The year 1672 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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A replica of Isaac Newton’s second reflecting telescope of 1672.

Astronomy

Botany

  • Robert Morison publishes Plantarum Umbelliferarum Distributio Nova, per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis, ex Libra Naturae observata et detecta, the first monograph devoted to a specific group of plants, the Umbelliferae.[2]

Mathematics

Medicine

  • Paul Barbette publishes Opera omnia medica et chirurgica.
  • Richard Lower publishes De Catarrhis, the first scholarly attempt by an English physician to take a classical doctrine (the theory that nasal catarrh is caused by secretions overspilling from the brain) and to disprove it by scientific experiment.
  • Dutch physician Regnier de Graaf describes the female reproductive system.[5]
  • Isbrand van Diemerbroeck publishes the first edition of his Anatome corporis humani in Utrecht.
  • Thomas Willis publishes the earliest English work on medical psychology, Two Discourses concerning The Soul of Brutes, Which is that of the Vital and Sensitive of Man.[6]
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Technology

Institutions

Births

Deaths

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