1697 in science

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The year 1697 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Technology

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, studies shipbuilding and other technologies in Holland.

Organizations

January – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle becomes perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, in succession to Jean-Baptiste du Hamel.

Publications

First known publication of English physician Richard Boulton, A Treatise of the Reason of Muscular Motion.
William Dampier publishes A New Voyage Round the World in London.

Births

February 24 – Bernhard Siegfried Weiss, later known as Albinus, German-born Dutch anatomist (died 1770)
February 5 – William Smellie, Scottish obstetrician (died 1763)
September 23 – Andrew Plummer, Scottish physician and chemist (died 1756)

Deaths

January 26 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (born 1640)
March 1 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician and biologist (born 1626)
Constantijn Huygens, Dutch statesman and telescope maker (born 1628)