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1708 in science

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The year 1708 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Physiology and medicine

Herman Boerhaave publishes Institutiones medicae, one of the earliest textbooks on physiology.

Technology

Calcareous hard-paste porcelain is produced at Dresden in Saxony by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and developed after his death (October) by Johann Friedrich Böttger.

Births

January 30 – Georg Dionysius Ehret, German artist, botanist and entomologist (died 1770)
October 16 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician and scientist, founder of neurology (died 1777)
October 22 – Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (died 1742)
October 27 – Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, French bridge engineer (died 1794)

Deaths

August 1 – Edward Tyson, English comparative anatomist (born 1651)
October 10 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (born 1659)
October 11 – Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (born 1651)
December 5 – Seki Takakazu, Japanese mathematician (born c. 1642)
December 28 – Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (born 1656)

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