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The year 1660 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Technology

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 in science)
• April 16 - Hans Sloane, British collector and physician (died 1753 in science)
• Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist (died 1709 in science)

Deaths

• May 29 - Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes (born 1615 in science)