1699 in science

December 15, 2023

The year 1699 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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Biology edit

English physician Edward Tyson publishes Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man, a pioneering work of comparative anatomy.

Exploration edit

July 26 – William Dampier's expedition to New Holland (Australia) in HMS Roebuck reaches Dirk Hartog Island at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay in Western Australia and begins producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna.^[1]
approx. date – Sir Isaac Newton develops a reflecting quadrant.

Mathematics edit

Abraham Sharp calculates π to 72 digits using an arctan sequence (although only 71 are correct).

Paleontology edit

Edward Lhuyd produces the first published scientific treatment of what would now be recognized as a dinosaur, describing and naming a sauropod tooth, "Rutellum implicatum" found at Caswell, near Witney, Oxfordshire, England.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Births edit

March 23 – John Bartram, naturalist and explorer, "father of American botany" (died 1777)
August 17 – Bernard de Jussieu, French botanist (died 1777)
September 12 – John Martyn, English botanist (died 1768)

Deaths edit

March 21 – Erhard Weigel, German mathematician and scientific populariser (born 1625)
November 18 – Pierre Pomet, French pharmacist (born 1658)^[5]

References edit

^ Bach, J. (1966). "Dampier, William (1651–1715)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
^ Lhuyd, E. (1699). Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, sive lapidium aliorumque fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium. London: Gleditsch and Weidmann.
^ Delair, J.B.; Sarjeant, W.A.S. (2002). "The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 113 (3): 185–197. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(02)80022-0.
^ Gunther, R.T. (1945). Early Science in Oxford: Life and Letters of Edward Lhuyd, volume 14. Oxford.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Pomet, Pierre (1658-1699)". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France.

December 15, 2023

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