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<h2 id="astronomy">Astronomy</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/John_Flamsteed/hptRt6IK">John Flamsteed</a>'s <i>Historia Coelestis</i> is first published, against his will and without credit by <a href="/facts/Isaac_Newton/4L7gTncN">Isaac Newton</a> and <a href="/facts/Edmond_Halley/JgjIRcUA">Edmond Halley</a> with the influence of <a href="/facts/John_Arbuthnot/GeIPgw3f">John Arbuthnot</a>. (A final version, approved by Flamsteed, is published posthumously in <a href="/facts/1725_in_science/dUypdw7u">1725</a>.)</li></ul> <h2 id="mathematics">Mathematics</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Seki_Takakazu/pLD8pLIM">Seki Takakazu</a>'s discovery of what become known as <a href="/facts/Bernoulli_number/RH0mblhs">Bernoulli numbers</a> is first published in his posthumous <i>Katsuyo Sanpō</i>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Giacomo_F._Maraldi/Vlm189mw">Giacomo F. Maraldi</a> experimentally obtains the <a href="/facts/Angle/gFUTEQYq">angle</a> in the <a href="/facts/Rhombic_dodecahedron/X3npAlmr">rhombic dodecahedron</a> shape, which becomes known as the Maraldi angle.</li></ul> <h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <ul><li>The first known working <a href="/facts/Newcomen_steam_engine/fMyUAQjk">Newcomen steam engine</a> is built by <a href="/facts/Thomas_Newcomen/29cvHymJ">Thomas Newcomen</a> with <a href="/facts/John_Calley_(engineer)/Pc5dkelY">John Calley</a> to pump water out of mines in the <a href="/facts/Black_Country/dbTA17nP">Black Country</a> of England.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="institutions">Institutions</h2> <ul><li>January 16 – A military engineering school is established in Moscow which is to become the <a href="/facts/A.F._Mozhaysky_Military-Space_Academy/mQrEd7ao">A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>March 8 – <a href="/facts/John_Fothergill_(physician)/bGnLyyah">John Fothergill</a>, English <a href="/facts/Physician/qJ3woFvG">physician</a> (died <a href="/facts/1780_in_science/RSenqQ6M">1780</a>)</li> <li>March 27 – <a href="/facts/Claude_Bourgelat/B0Td2N2d">Claude Bourgelat</a>, French <a href="/facts/Veterinary_surgeon/cdYI1I60">veterinary surgeon</a> (died <a href="/facts/1779_in_science/1odCQDI1">1779</a>)</li> <li>June 15 – <a href="/facts/Andrew_Gordon_(Benedictine)/MkNp74pF">Andrew Gordon</a>, Scottish-born Benedictine monk, physicist and inventor (died <a href="/facts/1751_in_science/oqCPpo0N">1751</a>)</li> <li><i>undated</i> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Ang%C3%A9lique_du_Coudray/LV0p0UHJ">Angélique du Coudray</a>, French pioneer of modern <a href="/facts/Midwifery/vdh9DMEK">midwifery</a> (died <a href="/facts/1789_in_science/F2JRm7sz">1789</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Bartholomew_Mosse/oumom57G">Bartholomew Mosse</a>, <a href="/facts/Irish_people/6Ykz2Dxl">Irish</a> surgeon and impresario (died <a href="/facts/1759_in_science/jokdkunq">1759</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>February 2 – <a href="/facts/Martin_Lister/sESPAmzn">Martin Lister</a>, English <a href="/facts/Naturalist/pSlAvbTX">naturalist</a> (born <a href="/facts/1639_in_science/tfEpTtYK">1639</a>)</li> <li>March 25 – <a href="/facts/Nehemiah_Grew/GTY6btYy">Nehemiah Grew</a>, English naturalist (born <a href="/facts/1641_in_science/fPBpcXFk">1641</a>)</li> <li>August 29 – <a href="/facts/Gregory_King/IWUqen2K">Gregory King</a>, English <a href="/facts/Statistician/9FBnXfeN">statistician</a> (born <a href="/facts/1648_in_science/SFuTx1T4">1648</a>)</li> <li>September 14 – <a href="/facts/Giovanni_Domenico_Cassini/JKxdrKC2">Giovanni Cassini</a>, Italian-born <a href="/facts/Astronomer/ronF8j4a">astronomer</a> (born <a href="/facts/1625_in_science/JR96SdbS">1625</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Rolt, L. T. C.; Allen, J. S. (1977). "The First Newcomen Engines c. 1710-15". The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen (new ed.). Hartington: Moorland. pp. 44–57. ISBN 0-903485-42-7. <a href="0-903485-42-7" target="_blank">0-903485-42-7</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>