1696 in science
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The year 1696 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Technology
[edit] Mathematics
- Guillaume de l'Hôpital states his rule for the computation of certain limits
- Jakob Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli solve brachistochrone problem, the first result in the calculus of variations
[edit] Births
- Henri Pitot, Italian-born French physicist, inventor of the pitot tube (died 1771)
[edit] Deaths
- Jean Richer, astronomer (born 1630)
