1668 In Science

Astronomy

• Isaac Newton invents the reflecting telescope

Biology

• Francesco Redi disproves theories of the spontaneous generation of maggots in putrefying matter.

Mathematics

• Nicholas Mercator and William Brouncker discover an infinite series for the logarithm while attempting to calculate the area under a hyperbolic segment

Births

• Hermann Boerhaave, Dutch physician and chemist who made Leiden a European centre of medical knowledge (died 1738)

Deaths

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