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<h2 id="botany">Botany</h2> <ul><li>Establishment of <a href="/facts/Hortus_Botanicus_(Amsterdam)/a5Xd96B0">Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam)</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="mathematics">Mathematics</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Samuel_Morland/12kvu9oo">Samuel Morland</a> publishes <i>The Doctrine of Interest, both Simple & Compound</i>, probably the first tables produced with the aid of a <a href="/facts/Calculating_machine/As7HE5dB">calculating machine</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="medicine">Medicine</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Great_Plague_of_Vienna/5Etxwctd">Great Plague of Vienna</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Franciscus_Sylvius/r3uMaR0w">Franciscus Sylvius</a>' <i>Opera Medica</i>, published posthumously, recognizes <a href="/facts/Scrofula/tIfI1qrD">scrofula</a> and phthisis as forms of <a href="/facts/Tuberculosis/ggPyovAl">tuberculosis</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Pierre-Paul_Riquet/s0287Hoh">Pierre-Paul Riquet</a> excavates <a href="/facts/Malpas_Tunnel/v8xyhoaA">Malpas Tunnel</a> on the <a href="/facts/Canal_du_Midi/Nq6YRp1N">Canal du Midi</a> in <a href="/facts/H%25C3%25A9rault/Q1n1ADLR">Hérault</a>, France, Europe's first navigable canal tunnel (165 m, concrete lined).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="zoology">Zoology</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Maria_Sibylla_Merian/SexVaCvr">Maria Sibylla Merian</a> publishes the first part of <i>Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandlung und sonderbare Blumennahrung</i> ("The Caterpillars' Marvellous Transformation and Strange Floral Food"), comprising detailed illustrated descriptions of insect <a href="/facts/Metamorphosis/nKDTSjsK">metamorphosis</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <ul><li>Publication in <a href="/facts/Paris/DrNHpwnA">Paris</a> of the first of <a href="/facts/Edme_Mariotte/NRfpkQIc">Edme Mariotte</a>'s <i>Essays de physique</i>: <i>De la végétation des plantes</i>, a pioneering discussion of <a href="/facts/Plant_physiology/zAh2o1Ao">plant physiology</a>; and <i>De la nature de l'air</i>, a statement of <a href="/facts/Boyle%2527s_law/EuguIP5A">Boyle's law</a>.</li> <li>Publication by the <a href="/facts/Paris_Observatory/Q4MUg7EW">Paris Observatory</a> of the world's first national <a href="/facts/Ephemeris/vjQCBG29">ephemeris</a> <a href="/facts/Almanac/LFaK6BWr">almanac</a>, the <i><a href="/facts/Connaissance_des_Temps/tsW82x7x">Connaissance des tems</a></i>, compiled by <a href="/facts/Jean_Picard/bEnYtFeU">Jean Picard</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>January 2 – <a href="/facts/Pierre_Fauchard/nNLoq8M0">Pierre Fauchard</a>, <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> <a href="/facts/Physician/qJ3woFvG">physician</a> (died <a href="/facts/1761_in_science/w0nj7xGb">1761</a>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>January 24 – <a href="/facts/Christian_Wolff_(philosopher)/xqtQwMfK">Christian Wolff</a>, <a href="/facts/Germany/paluuWBX">German</a> <a href="/facts/Philosopher/Hyvzc54m">philosopher</a>, <a href="/facts/Mathematician/eaFSR8Fx">mathematician</a> and <a href="/facts/Scientist/JDvthEFM">scientist</a> (died <a href="/facts/1754_in_science/2po4T7ft">1754</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>January 14 – <a href="/facts/Jacques_de_Billy/MBMHk3An">Jacques de Billy</a>, <a href="/facts/France/CxIeIKM3">French</a> <a href="/facts/Jesuit/n0PeYBB8">Jesuit</a> mathematician (born <a href="/facts/1602_in_science/GF82Y2Fd">1602</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Dickinson, H. W. (1970). Sir Samuel Morland: diplomat and inventor 1625-1695. Cambridge: Heffer for the Newcomen Society. ISBN 0-85270-061-X. <a href="0-85270-061-X" target="_blank">0-85270-061-X</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Roland, Claudine (1997). The Canal du Midi. MSM. ISBN 2-909998-66-5. <a href="2-909998-66-5" target="_blank">2-909998-66-5</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Etheridge, Kay (2020). The Flowering of Ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian's Caterpillar Book. Brill. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Jean-François Vincent. "Fauchard, Pierre". www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr (in French). Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé, Université de Paris (Base biographique). Retrieved 2021-02-08. <a href="https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/biographies/index.php?cle=6108" target="_blank">https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/biographies/index.php?cle=6108</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>