1700 in science
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The year 1700 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Exploration
- Edmond Halley, aboard HMS Paramour, observes the Antarctic Convergence.[1]
[edit] Geology
- January 26 (approx. 9 p.m.) – Cascadia earthquake: A gigantic earthquake rips across the present-day west coast of Canada and the United States along the Cascadia subduction zone over more than 600 miles (966 km) from Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino. The magnitude of the earthquake is estimated as between 8.7 and 9.2. There is no direct written documentation of the event; however, the Orphan Tsunami, which it triggers, hits Japan approximately 10 hours later, flooding fields and washing away houses.[2]
[edit] Medicine
- Nicolas Andry publishes De la génération des vers dans les corps de l'homme, a pioneering text in the germ theory of disease.[3]
- Bernardino Ramazzini publishes De Morbis Artificum Diatriba in Modena, a pioneering text in occupational medicine.
[edit] Technology
- approx. date – The clarinet might have been invented by the German flute maker Johann Christoph Denner as a modification of the chalumeau, but it will not be until the late 18th century that composers include clarinets into their orchestrations.[4]
- The piano, newly invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori, is listed in an inventory of musical instruments owned by the Medici.
[edit] Institutions
- July 11 – The Prussian Academy of Sciences is founded with Leibniz as president.[5]
[edit] Births
- February 8 – Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician (died 1782)
- November 19 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (died 1770)
- November 28 – Nathaniel Bliss, astronomer (died 1764)
- undated – William Braikenridge, clergyman and geometer (died 1762)[6]
[edit] Deaths
- May 22 – Louis Jolliet, explorer (born 1645)
- undated – Kamalakara, astronomer and mathematician (born 1616)
[edit] References
- ^ Gurney, Alan (1997). Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839. New York: Norton. ISBN 0393039498.
- ^ "The Great Cascadia Earthquake of 26 January AD 1700". USGS. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/pacnw/paleo/greateq/index.html.
- ^ Gee, Henry (2004). Jacob's Ladder: the History of the Human Genome. New York: W. W. Norton. pp. 35–36. ISBN 9780393050837.
- ^ McKinney, Roger W. "A Short History". Clarinet Compendium. http://www.tcnj.edu/~mckinney/a_short_history.htm.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (August 2004). "Berlin Academy of Science". MacTutor History of Mathematics. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/Berlin.html.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (November 1999). "William Braikenridge". MacTutor History of Mathematics. http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Braikenridge.html.
