1697 in science

none August 2026 1697 science 1697 The year 1697 in science and technology involved some significant events. Technology August – Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, studies shipbuilding and other technologies in Holland as part of his incognito Grand Embassy to western Europe. 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)William SMELLIE 1697-1763 https://bookowners.online/William_Smellie_1697-1763 Book Owners Online 21 August 2026 September 23 – Andrew Plummer, Scottish physician and chemist (died 1756)Doyle W. P. Andrew Plummer (1697-1756) https://chem.ed.ac.uk/about-us/history/professors/andrew-plummer University of Edinburgh August 21, 2026 February 16, 2024 Deaths January 26 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (born 1640)Mohr, George Encyclopedia.com Seidenberg A. https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/mohr-georg August 21, 2026 March 1 – Francesco Redi, Tuscan physician and biologist (born 1626) June 12 – Ann Baynard, English natural philosopher (born 1672)Burder Samuel Samuel Burder Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of the British Empire Volume 1 1823 Ogle, Duncan 235 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Memoirs_of_Eminently_Pious_Women_of_the/J_9CHcL9WxgC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Late October – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch statesman and telescope maker (born 1628) December 9 – Scipion Abeille, French surgeon and poet Probable year – Gilbert Clerke, English mathematician, natural philosopher and theologian (born 1626) References Category:17th century in science Category:1690s in science