His great work, entitled The True Intellectual System of the Universe, was published in 1678.

In late 1662 the first part of Hudibras, which he began writing when lodging at Holborn, London in 1658 and continued to work on while in Ludlow, was published, and the other two in 1664 and 1678 respectively.

The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, first published in 1678 and still widely read at the time of Thackeray's novel.

Huygens is remembered especially for his wave theory of light, which he first communicated in 1678 to France's Royal Académie des sciences and which he published in 1690 in his Treatise on light ( see also Huygens-Fresnel principle ).

He first described this discovery in the anagram " ceiiinosssttuv ", whose solution he published in 1678 as " Ut tensio, sic vis " meaning " As the extension, so the force.

Her first work, Siælens Sang-offer, was published 1678.

Less noted is his published call in 1749 for the roofing-over of Perrault's classical colonnaded east front of the Palais du Louvre and the clearing away of the ramshackle structures, both those that had been built against it, in order to form a proper Place du Louvre, and those in the centre of the Cour Carré itself Sections of the palace were in danger of collapse, scarcely touched by royal indifference after 1678 ; work did begin in 1755 to clear the facade of the Louvre, overseen by the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Marigny, supervisor of the Bâtiments du Roi.

An allegorical novel, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come was published by John Bunyan in 1678.

He published a description in 1678, resulting in the use of the term Hooke's joint in the English-speaking world.

In 1678, he published a now famous theorem on synthetic geometry in a triangle called Ceva ’ s Theorem.

The theorem is often attributed to Giovanni Ceva, who published it in his 1678 work De lineis rectis.

Protais ' writing about their travel was published by Melchisédech Thévenot ( Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s – 1696 editions ) and Johann Michael Vansleb ( The Present State of Egypt, 1678 ).

His life of Hooker was published in 1662, that of George Herbert in 1670 and that of Bishop Robert Sanderson in 1678.

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678.

There were eleven editions of the first part in John Bunyan's lifetime, published in successive years from 1678 to 1685 and in 1688, and there were two editions of the second part, published in 1684 and 1686.

It was published over the years of the Popish Plot ( 1678 – 1681 ) and ten years before the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and it shows the influence of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments.

He first stated this law in 1660 as a Latin anagram, whose solution he published in 1678 as Ut tensio, sic vis, meaning, " As the extension, so the force ".

He published the answer in 1678: " Ut tensio, sic vis " meaning " As the extension, so the force ", a linear relationship commonly referred to as Hooke's law.

Rather oddly, the title was given to an elderly character in the court novel La Princesse de Clèves published in 1678, three years after Saint-Simon was born.

His Life, written by himself up to 1678, with his diary and correspondence, and an index to his manuscript collections, was edited by William Hamper, and published in 1827.

Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin ( also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin ) ( c. 1645 – 1707 ) was a French writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678.

Captain Barclay's father was Robert Barclay ( 1732 – 1797 ), 5th of Ury, a member of an ancient Scottish family, and great-grandson of Robert Barclay ( 1648 – 1690 ), 2nd of Ury, who published in 1678 a noted Apology ( i. e. defence ) for the Quaker faith.

In 1678 he published Threnodia Carolina, an account of the last two years of the king's life.

* Thomas Shadwell's Restoration comedy, " A True Widow " ( 1678 ), mentions in Act Four: Stanmore: " No madam: Selfish, this Evening, in a green Room, behind the Scenes, was before-hand with me ..."

* Cudworth's chief philosophical work was The True Intellectual System of the Universe ( 1678 ) and the Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality, which appeared posthumously in 1731.

* 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

* 1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.

Political parties first appeared during the Exclusion Crisis of 1678 – 1681.

Abraham Darby I ( 1678 – 1717 ) was the first, and most famous, of three generations with that name in an Abraham Darby family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution.

Halley's star catalogue of 1678 was the first to contain telescopically determined locations of southern stars.

** William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island ( d. 1678 )

Its first building was built in 1678 – 1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677.

* March 8 – Abraham Darby I, first of that name of three generations of an English Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution ( b. 1678 )

It is also where, in 1678, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman in the world to graduate.

* Anna Maria van Schurman, ( 1607 – 1678 ), first Dutch female university student and scholar

* 1678 — Edmund Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars, the first systematic southern sky survey

: A plaque placed in 1915 at the intersection of Edgewood Avenue and US 1 ( Post Road ) makes reference to the first United States Postal Service Road, first used in 1678.

The term lingua franca is first recorded in English in 1678.

In 1663 the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations received its Royal Charter and Benedict Arnold ( 1615 – 1678 ) was elected its first Governor at Newport.

* Abraham Darby I ( 1678 – 1717 ) the first of three generations with that name in an English Quaker family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution.

Its first building was built in 1678 – 1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677.

W. Reader dates the first Godiva procession to 1677, but other sources date the first parade to 1678, and on that year a lad from the household of James Swinnerton enacted the role of Lady Godiva .</ br >