1700 in science

The year 1700 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Exploration

• September 6 – Edmond Halley returns to England after a voyage of almost one year on HMS Paramour, from which he has observed the Antarctic Convergence,^[1] and publishes his findings on terrestrial magnetism in General Chart of the Variation of the Compass.

Geology

• January 26 – At approximately 9 p.m., the
  Cascadia Subduction Zone and causes a tsunami
  that strikes the coast of Japan approximately 10 hours later.

• Nicolas Andry publishes De la génération des vers dans les corps de l'homme, a pioneering text in the germ theory of disease.^[2]
• Bernardino Ramazzini publishes De Morbis Artificum Diatriba in Modena, a pioneering text in occupational medicine.

Technology

• approx. date – The clarinet might have been invented by the German flute maker Joseph Mamadski as a modification of the chalumeau, but it will not be until the late 18th century that composers include clarinets into their orchestrations.^[3]
• The
  Medici
  .

Institutions

• July 11 – The
  Leibniz as president.^[4]

• February 8 – Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1782)
• May 7 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (died 1772)
• November 19 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French clergyman and physicist (died 1770)
• November 28 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (died 1764)
• Undated
  • geometer (died 1762)^[5]
  • George Martine, Scottish physician and scientist (died 1741)^[6]

Deaths

• May 22 –
  explorer (born 1645
  )
• June 1 – Willem ten Rhijne, Dutch doctor and botanist (born 1647)^[7]
• August 8 – Joseph Moxon, English mathematician (born 1627)
• Undated – Kamalakara, Indian astronomer and mathematician (born 1616)

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