1708 in science
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The year 1708 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Physiology and medicine
- Herman Boerhaave publishes Institutiones medicae, one of the earliest textbooks on physiology.
Technology
- Calcareous hard-paste porcelain is produced at Dresden in Saxony by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and developed after his death (October) by Johann Friedrich Böttger.
Births
- January 30 - Georg Dionysius Ehret (died 1770), German artist, botanist and entomologist.
- October 16 - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician and scientist, founder of neurology (died 1777)
- October 22 - Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (died 1742)
Deaths
- October 10 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (born 1659)
- October 11 - Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (born 1651)
- December 5 - Seki Takakazu, Japanese mathematician (born c. 1642)
- December 28 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (born 1656)
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