Publication in London of David Gregory's The elements of astronomy, physical and geometrical... Done into English, containing the first recorded use in English of the word Physics in its modern scientific sense[1] and the first mention of a series approximating the Titius–Bode law on celestial orbits.
Taylor also publishes his Essay on Linear Perspective, which discusses the principles of perspective and the vanishing point.
Medicine
French anatomistRaymond Vieussens's Traité nouveau de la structure et des causes du mouvement naturel du coeur is published in Toulouse, giving the first description of valvular disease of the heart.
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