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Strange Science: Timeline (12350 words) |
 | 1720-René Réaumur submits a report to the Paris Academy of Sciences proposing that a brief Noachian flood cannot account for the thick sedimentary layers (composed largely of broken shells) underlying the region of Tours. |
| 1723-Antoine de Jussieu addresses a paper to the Académie des Sciences suggesting that an ancient object, e.g., a stone tool, made of the same material and by the same process as those used by a modern population probably has the same function. |
| This single monograph increases tenfold the formally described vertebrates known to science. |
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1680 in science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (85 words) |
| The year 1680 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. |
| See also: 1679 in science, other events of 1680, 1681 in science and the list of years in science. |
| February 17 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, founder of both comparative anatomy and entomology (born 1637) |
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