1707 in science
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The year 1707 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Geology
- December 16 - Beginning of the last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
[edit] Mathematics
- Publication of Arithmetica universalis, the collected works of Isaac Newton on algebra
[edit] Medicine
- John Floyer, in The Physician's Pulse Watch, introduces counting of pulse rate during one minute.
- Giovanni Maria Lancisi publishes De Subitaneis Mortibus (On Sudden Death), an early work in cardiology.
[edit] Births
- January 11 - Vincenzo Riccati, Italian mathematician (died 1775)
- April 10 - John Pringle, Scottish physician (died 1782)
- April 15 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (died 1783)
- May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist (died 1778)
- September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (died 1788)
- date unknown - Benjamin Robins, English scientist and engineer (died 1751)
