1680 in science

The year 1680 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

14 November NS – Great Comet of 1680 observed by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered by telescope.{{cite web|url=http://home.att.net/~jwwerner51/Comet.html|title=The Great Comet of 1680|first=James W|last=Werner|accessdate=2006-02-05|archive-date=24 June 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060624133119/http://home.att.net/~jwwerner51/Comet.html|url-status=dead}}

English comparative anatomist Edward Tyson publishes Phocæna, or The anatomy of a porpess, dissected at Gresham Colledge, concluding that the porpoise is a mammal.
Robert Morison publishes Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis, Pars Secunda, seu Herbarum Distributio Nova per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis ex Libro Naturae observata et detecta, utilising his method of taxonomy.{{cite book|last=Oliver|first=Francis Wall|title=Makers of British Botany|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1913|pages=15–16|chapter=Robert Morison 1620–1683...|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Makers_of_British_botany/Robert_Morison_1620%E2%80%941683_and_John_Ray_1627%E2%80%941705| accessdate= 2 April 2011 }}

30 September – Robert Boyle reports to the Royal Society of London his manufacture of phosphorus. He uses it to ignite sulfur-tipped wooden splints, forerunners of the match.{{cite book|first=N. C.|last=Datta|title=The Story of Chemistry|publisher=Universities Press|year=2005|page=74}}{{cite book|title=Metabolism of the Anthroposphere|first1=Peter|last1=Baccini|first2=Paul H.|last2=Brunner|publisher=MIT Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0262300544|page=288}}

8 July – Robert Hooke observes the nodal patterns associated with the vibrations of glass plates.{{cite web|url=http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/chladni.html|title=Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni|publisher=Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University| accessdate= 8 May 2011 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110514140121/http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/chladni.html| archivedate= 14 May 2011 }}{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryscient00dain/page/n208 101]|title=Oxford Dictionary of Scientists|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryscient00dain|url-access=limited|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999}}

17 February – Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, founder of both comparative anatomy and entomology (born 1637)
22 March – François Cureau de La Chambre, French physician (born 1630){{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktNVifjcOcAC&pg=PA269 |title=L'Anthropologie |date=1894 |publisher=Masson. |pages=270 |language=fr}}
Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (born 1610)