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1715 in science

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The year 1715 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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Astronomy

  • May 3 – Total solar eclipse across southern England, Sweden and Finland (last total eclipse visible in London for almost 900 years).
  • Edmond Halley suggests that nebulae are clouds of interstellar gas.
  • Publication in London of David Gregory's The elements of astronomy, physical and geometrical... Done into English, containing the first recorded use in English of the word Physics in its modern scientific sense[1] and the first mention of a series approximating the Titius–Bode law on celestial orbits.
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Medicine

  • French anatomist Raymond Vieussens's Traité nouveau de la structure et des causes du mouvement naturel du coeur is published in Toulouse, giving the first description of valvular disease of the heart.

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