The year 1677 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Publication of the first English
star atlas, John Seller's Atlas Coelestis.
Mathematics
Publication of Cocker's Arithmetick: Being a Plain and Familiar Method Suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country, attributed to
Edward Cocker (died 1676). It will remain a standard
grammar school textbook in
England for more than 150 years.[1]
Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England, in which he describes the fossilised femur of a human giant, now known to be from the
dinosaurMegalosaurus.
The year 1677 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Publication of the first English
star atlas, John Seller's Atlas Coelestis.
Mathematics
Publication of Cocker's Arithmetick: Being a Plain and Familiar Method Suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country, attributed to
Edward Cocker (died 1676). It will remain a standard
grammar school textbook in
England for more than 150 years.[1]
Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England, in which he describes the fossilised femur of a human giant, now known to be from the
dinosaurMegalosaurus.