1681 in science

none 1681 science 1681 The year 1681 in science and technology involved some significant events. Physiology and medicine November 29 – The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh is granted a royal charter.Three hundred years of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Ronald H. Girdwood Ronald Girdwood British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Edition) 1981-09-05 283 6292 651–654 10.1136/bmj.283.6292.651 1506788 6790117 John Mayow gives the first known description of mitral stenosis.In his Opera Omnia Medico-Physica, published at The Hague, the 2nd edition of his Tractatus Quinque. Technology May 15 – The Canal du Midi in France is opened officially as the Canal Royal de Languedoc.Rolt L. T. C. L. T. C. Rolt From Sea to Sea: An Illustrated History of the Canal du Midi Allen Lane 1973 London 0713904712 Samuel Morland demonstrates improvements in water pumps.H. W. Dickinson Sir Samuel Morland: diplomat and inventor 1625-1695 https://archive.org/details/sirsamuelmorland0000dick registration Cambridge Heffer for the Newcomen Society 1970 0-85270-061-X First known reference to a corkscrew.The Oxford Companion to Wine corkscrew http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/reference/oxford_entry.jsp?entry_id=827 2008-11-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20090227122849/http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/reference/oxford_entry.jsp?entry_id=827 2009-02-27 dead winepros.com.au Publications Thomas Burnet's cosmogony Telluris Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth is published in England. Spanish Jesuit astronomer Eusebio Kino publishes his observations of the Great Comet of 1680 in Mexico City as Exposisión astronómica de el cometa, one of the earliest scientific treatises published by a European in the New World.H. E. Bolton Kino's Historical Memoir of the Pimería Alta https://archive.org/details/kinoshistorical01boltgoog Cleveland, Ohio Arthur H. Clark 1919 Births August 12 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (died 1741) Deaths Marie Fouquet, French medical writer (born 1590)Madame François Fouquet (1590-1681) http://data.bnf.fr/12459622/madame_francois_fouquet/ data.bnf.fr 3 April 2018 en 25 July 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190725151029/http://data.bnf.fr/12459622/madame_francois_fouquet/ dead References Category:17th century in science Category:1680s in science