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  • Christian Huygens - Dutch astronomer

    Christian Huygens - Dutch astronomer
    Christian Huygens (d.1695), Dutch astronomer, discoverer of Saturn's rings, was born. He invented the pendulum and along with Newton showed that any body revolving around a center is actually accelerating constantly toward that center, even though the rate of rotation remains constant.

  • Sir Isaac Newton - English physicist

    Sir Isaac Newton - English physicist
    saac Newton (d.1727), English physicist, mathematician and scientist, was born in Woolsthorpe (Grantham), Lincolnshire, England. He enunciated the laws of motion and the law of gravity.

  • The Leyden jar

    The Leyden jar
    The Leyden jar, capable of storing static electricity, was invented by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist. Also about this time Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden (Leyden) independently came up with the same idea.

  • The relationship between electricity and lightning.

    The relationship between electricity and lightning.
    Benjamin Franklin and his son tested the relationship between electricity and lightning by flying a kite in a thunder storm. Some sources date this to June 10.