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1699 in science

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Biology
Exploration
Mathematics
Paleontology
Births
Deaths
References

The year 1699 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Biology

English physician Edward Tyson publishes or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man, a pioneering work of comparative anatomy.

Exploration

July 26 – William Dampier's expedition to New Holland (Australia) in HMS Roebuck reaches Dirk Hartog Island at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay in Western Australia and begins producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna.^[1]
approx. date – Sir Isaac Newton develops a reflecting quadrant.

Mathematics

Abraham Sharp calculates π to 72 digits using an arctan sequence (although only 71 are correct).

Paleontology

Edward Lhuyd produces the first published scientific treatment of what would now be recognized as a dinosaur, describing and naming a sauropod tooth, "Rutellum implicatum" found at Caswell, near Witney, Oxfordshire, England.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Births

March 23 – John Bartram, naturalist and explorer, "father of American botany" (died 1777)
August 17 – Bernard de Jussieu, French botanist (died 1777)
September 12 – John Martyn, English botanist (died 1768)

Deaths

March 21 – Erhard Weigel, German mathematician and scientific populariser (born 1625)
November 18 - Pierre Pomet, French pharmacist (born 1658)

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010265b.htm|first=J.|last=Bach|title=Dampier, William (1651–1715)|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|year=1966|accessdate=2012-03-15}}
2. ^{{cite book|last=Lhuyd|first=E.|year=1699|title=Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, sive lapidium aliorumque fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium|publisher=Gleditsch and Weidmann|location=London}}
3. ^{{cite journal|last=Delair|first=J.B.|author2=Sarjeant, W.A.S.|year=2002|title=The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined|journal=Proceedings of the Geologists' Association|volume=113|pages=185–197|doi=10.1016/S0016-7878(02)80022-0}}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Gunther|first=R.T.|year=1945|title=Early Science in Oxford: Life and Letters of Edward Lhuyd, volume 14|location=Oxford}}

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