1699 in science
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The year 1699 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Exploration
- approx. date - Sir Isaac Newton develops a reflecting quadrant.
[edit] Paleontology
- Edward Lhuyd produces the first published scientific treatment of what would now be recognized as a dinosaur, describing and naming a sauropod tooth, "Rutellum implicatum" found at Caswell, near Witney, Oxfordshire, England.[1][2][3]
[edit] Births
- March 23 - John Bartram, naturalist and explorer, "father of American botany" (d. 1777)
- August 17 - Bernard de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1777)
- September 12 - John Martyn, English botanist (d. 1768)
[edit] Deaths
- March 21 - Erhard Weigel, German mathematician and scientific populariser (b. 1625)
[edit] References
- ^ Lhuyd, E. (1699). Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, sive lapidium aliorumque fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium. London: Gleditsch and Weidmann.
- ^ Delair, J.B.; Sarjeant, W.A.S. (2002). "The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 113: 185–197.
- ^ Gunther, R.T. (1945). Early Science in Oxford: Life and Letters of Edward Lhuyd, volume 14. Oxford.
