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<h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Pascal%27s_law/YhLSkQwQ">Pascal's law</a>, a law of <a href="/facts/Hydrostatics/GYu6ljQ0">hydrostatics</a> is developed, stating that, in a perfect fluid, the pressure exerted on it anywhere is transmitted equally.</li></ul> <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <ul><li>Dr <a href="/facts/Thomas_Browne/2l6bUfHS">Thomas Browne</a>'s <i><a href="/facts/Pseudodoxia_Epidemica/xQK0a7g3">Pseudodoxia Epidemica</a></i> is published in <a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> introducing the words <i><a href="/facts/Electricity/hNC8D65W">electricity</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/Medicine/2fnp90Je">medical</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/Pathology/U9b18LJG">pathology</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/Hallucination/5eUvLcnp">hallucination</a></i> and <i><a href="/facts/Computer/SQe1aK05">computer</a></i> to the <a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English language</a> and casting doubt on the theory of <a href="/facts/Spontaneous_generation/bUVSjNam">spontaneous generation</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>April 20 – <a href="/facts/Charles_Plumier/J0b2eYNU">Charles Plumier</a>, <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> <a href="/facts/Botanist/PaIRoxnb">botanist</a> (died <a href="/facts/1704_in_science/1uIutsBc">1704</a>)</li> <li>July 1 – <a href="/facts/Gottfried_Leibniz/cTc2er83">Gottfried Leibniz</a>, <a href="/facts/Germans/F7mBCrJ4">German</a> scientist and <a href="/facts/Mathematician/eaFSR8Fx">mathematician</a> (died <a href="/facts/1716_in_science/kT9uhtPr">1716</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>November 29 – <a href="/facts/Laurentius_Paulinus_Gothus/GAfFRMaV">Laurentius Paulinus Gothus</a>, <a href="/facts/Swedish_people/gAeGfw2N">Swedish</a> theologian and <a href="/facts/Astronomer/ronF8j4a">astronomer</a> (born <a href="/facts/1565_in_science/qhqhFX6v">1565</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 261. ISBN 0-304-35730-8. <a href="0-304-35730-8" target="_blank">0-304-35730-8</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Chalmers, Gordon (1937). "The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England". Philosophy of Science. 4 (1): 75–95. doi:10.1086/286445. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>