1697 in science

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The year 1697 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Technology

• Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, studies shipbuilding and other technologies in Holland.

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.

Births

• February 24 - Bernhard Siegfried Weiss, later known as Albinus, German-born Dutch anatomist (d. 1770)
• February 5 - William Smellie, Scottish obstetrician (d. 1763)
• September 23 - Andrew Plummer, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1756)

Deaths

• January 26 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
• March 1 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician and biologist (b. 1626)
• Constantijn Huygens, Dutch statesman and telescope maker (b. 1628)