The year 1708 in science and technology involved some significant events. Herman Boerhaave publishes Institutiones medicae, one of the earliest textbooks...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1708. 1708 (MDCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday...
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article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1708. July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry. unknown...
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The year 1708 in music involved some significant musical events and new works. Alessandro Scarlatti returns to Naples from Venice. Johann Sebastian Bach...
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Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard (category 1708 in science)
probability written by Pierre Remond de Montmort published in 1708 with an expanded second edition in 1713. It was the first comprehensive text published on...
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1705 in science and technology involved some significant events. Edmond Halley, in his Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae, states that comets seen in 1456...
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in 1708. Charles Nicholas Ayres (fl. 1708) Robert Balle (d. 1733) John Bridges (1666–1724) Francesco Cornaro (1670–1734) William Fellowes (fl. 1708)...
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The year 1716 in science and technology involved some significant events. Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel publishes his handbook of experimental chemistry...
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Great Frost of 1709 (category 1708 in Europe)
was known in England, or Le Grand Hiver ("The Great Winter"), as it was known in France, was an extraordinarily cold winter in Europe in 1708–1709, and...
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The year 1701 in science and technology involved some significant events. Edmond Halley's General Chart of the Variation of the Compass is first published...
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The year 1717 in science and technology involved few significant events. Thomas Fairchild, a nurseryman at Hoxton in the East End of London, becomes the...
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The year 1707 in science and technology involved some significant events. May 23 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. October 28 – The...
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year 1703 in science and technology involved some significant events. Charles Plumier's Nova plantarum Americanarum genera begins publication in Paris. This...
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The year 1711 in science and technology involved some significant events. Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli shows that coral is an animal rather than a plant as...
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The year 1712 in science and technology involved some significant events. John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis is first published, against his will and...
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The year 1709 in science and technology involved some significant events. January – Great Frost in Western Europe. Francis Hauksbee publishes Physico-Mechanical...
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This is a list of significant events that occurred in the year 1718 in science. Edmond Halley discovers the proper motion of stars. Étienne François Geoffroy...
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The year 1704 in science and technology involved some significant events. approx. date – The first modern orrery is built by George Graham and Thomas Tompion...
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victory in the battle led to the city being reconquered by the Algerians for 24 years (1708–1732), before Spanish forces conquered the town in 1732. In 1509...
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The year 1698 in science and technology involved some significant events. Christiaan Huygens, in his posthumously published book Kosmotheoros, argues that...
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The year 1710 in science and technology involved some significant events. The Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala is founded in Uppsala, Sweden, as the...
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The year 1706 in science and technology involved some significant events. William Jones publishes Synopsis palmariorum matheseos or, A New Introduction...
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The year 1699 in science and technology involved some significant events. English physician Edward Tyson publishes Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris:...
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The year 1713 in science and technology involved some significant events. John Rowley of London produces an orrery to a commission by Charles Boyle, 4th...
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The year 1715 in science and technology involved some significant events. May 3 – Total solar eclipse across southern England, Sweden and Finland (last...
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Events from the year 1708 in art. Flemish painter and engraver Pieter Casteels III comes to work in Britain. Czech sculptor Ferdinand Brokoff sets up his...
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English botanist (died 1728) June 3 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (died 1708) October 10 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (born 1603) According to Moritz...
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Sigmund von Haimhausen (category 1708 births)
of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Sigmund Ferdinand Graf von und zu Haimhausen was born on 28 December 1708 in Munich, in the Electorate of Bavaria...
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The year 1700 in science and technology involved some significant events. September 6 – Edmond Halley returns to England after a voyage of almost one year...
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