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''See also:'' 1659 In Science , Other Events Of 1660 , 1661 In Science and the List Of Years In Science .

PHYSICS

Robert Boyle publishes his work on the properties of air, which includes his discovery, Boyle's Law , which describes the inverse relationship between volume and pressure in a gas.

BIRTHS

February 19 - Friedrich Hoffmann , physician and chemist (died 1742 )

April 16 - Hans Sloane , British collector and physician (died 1753 )

Edward Llwyd , Welsh naturalist (died 1709 )

DEATHS

May 29 - Frans Van Schooten , Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the Analytic Geometry of René Descartes (born 1615 )