1694 in science
Encyclopedia
The year 1694 in science
and technology
involved some significant events.
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
involved some significant events.
Botany
- Joseph Pitton de TournefortJoseph Pitton de TournefortJoseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants.- Biography :...
publishes Éléments de botanique ou méthode pour reconnaître les plantes. - Rudolf Jakob CamerariusRudolf Jakob CamerariusRudolf Jakob Camerarius or Camerer was a German botanist and physician.Camerarius was born at Tübingen, and became professor of medicine and director of the botanical gardens at Tübingen in 1687...
publishes De Sexu Plantarum Epistola in which he demonstrates the role of stamenStamenThe stamen is the pollen producing reproductive organ of a flower...
s and pistils in plant reproduction.
Births
- June 26 - Georg BrandtGeorg Brandt-External links:** by Uno Boklund in: Charles C. Gillispie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography , vol. 2, pages 421-422....
, SwedishSwedesSwedes are a Scandinavian nation and ethnic group native to Sweden, mostly inhabiting Sweden and the other Nordic countries, with descendants living in a number of countries.-Etymology:...
chemistChemistA chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
(d. 17681768 in scienceThe year 1768 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Biology:* Caspar Friedrich Wolff begins publication of "De Formatione Intestinarum" in the Mémoires of The Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences The year 1768 in science and technology involved some significant...
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Deaths
- November 29 - Marcello MalpighiMarcello MalpighiMarcello Malpighi was an Italian doctor, who gave his name to several physiological features, like the Malpighian tubule system.-Early years:...
, ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
physiologist (b. 16281628 in scienceThe year 1628 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Medicine and physiology:* William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation in Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus.-Births:...
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