1668 in science
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The year 1668 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
See also: 1667 in science, other events of 1668, 1669 in science and the list of years in science.
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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)
