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1691 In Science
The year 1691 in science and technology involved some significant events. Biology * Italian Jesuit scholar Filippo Bonanni publishes the results of his microscopic observations of invertebrates in ''Observationes circa Viventia, quae in Rebus non-Viventibus''. Mathematics * Gottfried Leibniz discovers the technique of separation of variables for ordinary differential equations. * Michel Rolle invents Rolle's theorem. Medicine * Anton Nuck's ''Adenographia curiosa et uteri foeminei anatome nova'' is published at Leiden, including a description of the canal of Nuck and a demonstration that the embryo is derived from the ovary and not the sperm. Technology * Edmond Halley devises a diving bell. * In music, the "equal temperament scale" used in modern music is developed by organist Andreas Werckmeister. Births * November 18 – Mårten Triewald, Sweden, Swedish mechanical engineer (died 1747 in science, 1747) Deaths * January 17 – Richard Lower (physician), Richard Lower, Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 Common Era, BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the Universe, physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of History of science in classical antiquity, Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
