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1686 in science

See also: 1685 in science, other events of 1686, 1687 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents
1 Astronomy
2 Geology
3 Meteorology
4 Physics
5 Births
6 Deaths

Astronomy

  • Gottfried Kirch notices that Chi Cygni's brightness varies.

Geology

  • Edmund Halley establishes the relationship between barometric pressure and height above sea level.

Meteorology

Physics

  • Isaac Newton uses a fixed length pendulum with weights of varying composition to test the weak equivalence principle to 1 part in 1000

Births

Deaths


 
 

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