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1691
The year 1691 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Biology
Italian Jesuit scholar Filippo Bonanni publishes the results of his microscopic observations of invertebrates in Observationes circa Viventia, quae in Rebus non-Viventibus.
Mathematics
Gottfried Leibniz discovers the technique of separation of variables for ordinary differential equations.
Michel Rolle invents Rolle's theorem.
Medicine
Anton Nuck's Adenographia curiosa et uteri foeminei anatome nova is published at Leiden, including a description of the canal of NuckOle Daniel Enersen Nuck's canal http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/2644.html Whonamedit? 2012-10-15 and a demonstration that the embryo is derived from the ovary and not the sperm.Speert Harold Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones Macmillan New York 1958 95–101
Technology
Edmond Halley devises a diving bell.Edmonds, Carl Lowry, C. Pennefather, John History of diving South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal 5 2 http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/5894 2011-06-17 2010-10-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20101014013941/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/5894 dead
In music, the "equal temperament scale" used in modern music is developed by organist Andreas Werckmeister.
Births
November 18 – Mårten Triewald, Swedish mechanical engineer (died 1747)
Deaths
January 17 – Richard Lower, English physician who performed the first direct blood transfusion (born 1631)
December 31 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist (born 1627)Robert Boyle Biography, Contributions, Works, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Boyle Encyclopedia Britannica 4 December 2020 en
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