1716 in science

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The year 1716 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Chemistry

• Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel publishes his handbook of experimental chemistry, Collegium physico-chymicum experimentale, oder, Laboratorium chymicum, in Germany.

Events

• Tsar Peter the Great of Russia studies with the physician Herman Boerhaave at Leiden University.

Births

• January 12 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish explorer (d. 1795)
• March 6 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish botanist and explorer (d. 1779)
• May 29 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1799)
• c. August 18 - Johan Maurits Mohr, Dutch astronomer (d. 1775)
• October 3 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
• December 27 - Leonardo Ximenes, Tuscan polymath (d. 1786)
• James Brindley, English engineer (d. 1772)

Deaths

• November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz, German scientist and mathematician (b. 1646)