1717 in science

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The year 1717 in science and technology involved few significant events.

Contents

1 Biology
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 References

Biology

James Petiver publishes Papilionum Brittaniae Icones, the first book devoted exclusively to British butterflies, giving English names to a number of species.^[1]

Births

November 16 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1783)

Deaths

January 13 - Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist (b. 1647)
March 8 - Abraham Darby I, English ironmaster (b. 1678)

References

^ Salmon, Michael A. (2000). The Aurelian Legacy: British butterflies and their collectors. Colchester: Basil Harley. pp. 103–105. ISBN 0946589402.