1690 in science
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The year 1690 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Giovanni Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.
- Earliest recorded sightings of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri.
[edit] Medicine
- Justine Siegemund publishes Die Kgl. Preußische und Chur-Brandenburgische Hof-Wehemutter ("The Court Midwife"), the first medical textbook in German written by a woman.
[edit] Technology
- Denis Papin, while in Leipzig and having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric pressure on his 'digester', builds a working model of a reciprocating steam engine, the first of its kind.
- America's first paper money is printed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
[edit] Births
- March 18 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (d. 1764)
