1672 In Science

Astronomy

• John Flamsteed determines the solar parallax from observations of Mars
• Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
• Sir Isaac Newton reads 1st Optiks paper before Royal Society of London

Births

Deaths

• Simon Dezhnev, Russian Cossack navigator, who in 1648 made the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait (born 1605)

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