1693 in science

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The year 1693 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Actuarial science

• Edmond Halley publishes an article in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society on life annuities featuring a life table constructed on the basis of statistics from Breslau provided by Caspar Neumann.

Botany

• Publication of Charles Plumier's first work, Description des plantes de l'Amérique, in Paris, principally devoted to ferns.

Physiology and medicine

• Flemish anatomist Philip Verheyen, in his widely-used text Corporis Humani Anatomia, is the first to record the name of the Achilles tendon.

Births

• March - James Bradley, Astronomer Royal (d. 1762)

Deaths

• Elisabeth Hevelius, astronomer (b. 1647)