1678 in science

The year 1678 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

* Edmund Halley publishes a catalogue of 341 southern stars - the first systematic southern sky survey.

Physics

* Christiaan Huygens publishes his "Traité de la Lumière/Treatise on Light", which states his principle of wavefront sources.
* Robert Hooke discovers the fundamental law of elasticity when he finds that the stress (force) exerted is proportional to the strain (elongation) produced.

Zoology

* Publication of "English Spiders" by Martin Lister, the first book devoted to spiders.

Births

*July 16 — Jakob Hermann, mathematician (died 1733)
*November 26 — Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist (died 1771)
*October 27 — Pierre Raymond de Montmort, mathematician (died 1719)
*"unknown" — Pierre Fauchard, physician and "father of modern dentistry" (died 1761)

Deaths

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