1707 in science

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The year 1707 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Geology
2 Mathematics
3 Medicine
4 Births
5 Deaths

Geology

December 16 - Beginning of the last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.

Mathematics

Publication of Arithmetica universalis, the collected works of Isaac Newton on algebra.
Abraham de Moivre derives de Moivre's formula.

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.
Georg Ernst Stahl publishes Theoria medica vera: physiologiam & pathologiam.

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)

Deaths

March 30 - Marquis de Vauban, French military engineer (b. 1633)