1699 in science

none 1699 science 1699 The year 1699 in science and technology involved some significant events. Biology English physician Edward Tyson publishes Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: 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.http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010265b.htm J. Bach Dampier, William (1651–1715) Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 1966 2012-03-15 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.Lhuyd E. 1699 Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, sive lapidium aliorumque fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium Gleditsch and Weidmann LondonDelair J.B. Sarjeant, W.A.S. 2002 The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 113 3 185–197 10.1016/S0016-7878(02)80022-0Gunther R.T. 1945 Early Science in Oxford: Life and Letters of Edward Lhuyd, volume 14 Oxford 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)Pomet, Pierre (1658-1699) https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13015643x catalogue.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France fr References Category:17th century in science Category:1690s in science