1685 in science

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The year 1685 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Medicine
2 Technology
3 Births
4 Deaths

Medicine

Govert Bidloo publishes an atlas of human anatomy, Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams, with plates by Gerard de Lairesse.

Technology

Menno van Coehoorn publishes his principal treatise on fortification, Nieuwe Vestingbouw op een natte of lage horisont, in Leeuwarden.

Births

August 18 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
November 17 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, French Canadian explorer (d. 1749)

Deaths

November 23 - Bernard de Gomme, military engineer in England (b. 1620)
December 12 - John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)