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January 5 – The Journal des sçavans begins publication in France, the first scientific journal. March 6 – The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London begins publication in England under the editorship of Henry Oldenburg, the first scientific journal in English and the oldest to be continuously published.
1665: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: first peer reviewed scientific journal published. 1665: Robert Hooke: discovers the cell. 1668: Francesco Redi: disproved idea of spontaneous generation. 1669: Nicholas Steno: proposes that fossils are organic remains embedded in layers of sediment, basis of stratigraphy.
The discovery was proof of a heliocentric model of the universe, since it is the revolution of the earth around the sun that causes an apparent motion in the observed position of a star. The discovery also led Bradley to a fairly close estimate to the speed of light. [77] William Herschel's 40 foot (12 m) telescope
The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that ... The society began publication of Philosophical Transactions from 1665, ... The discoveries of Kepler and ...
Pages in category "1665 in science" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
From 1665 to 1703, he was also Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. [11] Hooke began his scientific career as an assistant to the physical scientist Robert Boyle. Hooke built the vacuum pumps that were used in Boyle's experiments on gas law and also conducted experiments. [12] In 1664, Hooke identified the rotations of Mars and Jupiter. [11]
The discovery of a new species of crocodile that took 200 years to confirm Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's depiction of the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) from the Description de l'Egypte ...
1665 – Academic journals are published for the first time, in France and Great Britain. [28] 1675 – To encourage the publicising of new discoveries in science, the German-born Henry Oldenburg pioneers the practice now known as peer reviewing, by sending scientific manuscripts to experts to judge their quality. [29]