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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 (died 1795)
March 6 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish botanist and explorer (died 1779)
May 29 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (died 1799)
c. August 18 – Johan Maurits Mohr, Dutch astronomer (died 1775)
October 3 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (died 1781)
October 4 – James Lind, Scottish-born pioneer of hygiene in the British Royal Navy (died 1794)
December 27 – Leonardo Ximenes, Tuscan polymath (died 1786)
James Brindley, English engineer (died 1772)

Deaths

November 14 – Gottfried Leibniz, German scientist and mathematician (born 1646)

References

"Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz". [[Encyclopædia Britannica]].

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