1703 in science

none 1703 science 1703 The year 1703 in science and technology involved some significant events. Biology Charles Plumier's Nova plantarum Americanarum genera begins publication in Paris. This includes descriptions of Fuchsia, discovered by him on Hispaniola,The Encyclopædia Britannica: a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, Volume XI, Franciscans to Gibbons 11th ed. New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company (1910). p. 272. Retrieved on 2007-09-25. and naming of the genus Magnolia, applied to species from Martinique. Chemistry Georg Ernst Stahl, professor of medicine and chemistry at the University of Halle, proposes phlogiston theory in the way it comes to be generally understood.Mason Stephen F. 1962 A History of the Sciences https://archive.org/details/historyofscience00maso registration revised New York Collier Books Chapter 26 Earth sciences An early, crude seismograph is developed by the French physicist Abbé Jean de Hautefeuille. Mathematics Gottfried Leibniz publishes a first description of binary numbers in the West.Leibniz G. "Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire". Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Repr. in Gerhardt, C., ed. (1879), Die Mathematische Schriften, Berlin, 7:223. English translation as "Explanation of Binary Arithmetic" at Leibniz Translations, retrieved on 2013-12-24. Leonty Magnitsky's Arithmetic (Арифметика) is published, a scientific book in the Russian language. Meteorology December 7–10 (November 26–29 O.S.) – Great Storm of 1703, an extratropical cyclone, ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing at least 8,000, mostly at sea. The Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth is destroyed in the storm together with its designer Henry Winstanley.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750 Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750 2018-07-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164123/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750 2007-08-17 Institutions November 30 – Isaac Newton is elected president of the Royal Society of London, a position he will hold until his death in 1727. Richard Mead is admitted to the Royal Society (to whose Transactions he contributes this year a paper on the parasitic nature of scabies), is elected physician to St Thomas' Hospital, and is appointed to read anatomical lectures at Surgeon's Hall, all in London.From 1703 to 1712 https://books.google.com/books?id=OPRbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 1809 1 Births January 8 – André Levret, French obstetrician (died 1780) January 15 – Johann Ernst Hebenstreit, German physician and naturalist (died 1757) June 21 – Joseph Lieutaud, French physician (died 1780) August 23 – Robert James, English physician (died 1776) September 15 – Guillaume-François Rouelle, French chemist and apothecary (died 1770) October 28 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (died 1768) November 25 – Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (died 1784) December 2 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (died 1759) December 9 – Chester Moore Hall, English scientific instrument maker (died 1771) December 24 – Aleksei Chirikov, Russian explorer (died 1748) Deaths March 3 – Robert Hooke, English scientist (born 1635) March 20 (probable) – Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel, German chemist (born 1630?) September 22 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (born 1622) October 28 – John Wallis, English mathematician (born 1616) References Category:1700s in science Category:18th century in science