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

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A large brown telescope with black rims mounted on a brown sphere
A replica of Isaac Newton’s second reflecting telescope of 1672.

Astronomy

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Botany

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  • 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

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Medicine

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  • 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]

Technology

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Institutions

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References

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  1. ^ "A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge; Containing His New Theory about Light and Colors: Sent by the Author to the Publisher from Cambridge, Febr. 6. 1671/72; In Order to be Communicated to the R. Society". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London. 1672-02-19. The Original or primary colours are, Red, Yellow, Green, Blew, and a Violet-purple, together with Orange, Indico, and an indefinite variety of Intermediate gradations.
  2. ^ Oliver, Francis Wall (1913). "Robert Morison 1620–1683...". Makers of British Botany. Cambridge University Press. pp. 15–16.
  3. ^ Mohr, Georg (1672). Euclides Danicus. Amsterdam: Jacob van Velsen.
  4. ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
  5. ^ De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus tractatus novus: demonstrans tam homines & animalia caetera omnia, quae vivipara dicuntur, haud minus quàm ovipara ab ovo originem ducere.
  6. ^ "Thomas Willis". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 2011-03-15.
  7. ^ "Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660-2015". London: Royal Society. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-10-15.