1676 In Science

Astronomy

• Ole Rmer measures the speed of light by observing Jupiter's moons
• Foundation of the Royal Greenwich Observatory

Physics

• Ole Rmer discovers that light has a finite speed
• Edme Mariotte publishes an essay describing Boyle's law, although following by 16 years Robert Boyle's discovery of the same inverse relationship between the volume and pressure of a gas.

Births

Deaths

• John Ogilby, English map-maker (born 1600)

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