1689 in science

Astronomy

  • Publication of the first astronomical book in Japan, Tenmon Zukai (天文圖解) by Tsunenori (or Jōhan) Iguchi at Osaka.

Botany

  • Pierre Magnol publishes Prodromus historiae generalis plantarum, in quo familiae plantarum per tabulas disponuntur ("Precursor to a general history of plants, in which the families of plants are arranged in tables") in Montpellier, the first example of a natural classification of plant families based on morphological characteristics.[1]

Earth sciences

Medicine

  • Walter Harris publishes De Morbis Acutis Infantum in London; it remains a standard textbook on pediatrics for nearly a century.[3]
  • Richard Morton published Phthisiologia, seu exercitationes de Phthisi tribus libris comprehensae, emphasizing the tubercle as the origin of tuberculosis.

Technology

Kneller's portrait of Newton

Events

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Aiello, T. (2003). "Pierre Magnol: His life and works". Magnolia: The Journal of the Magnolia Society. 38 (74): 1–10.
  2. Larsen, Paul (2003), Scientific accounts of a vanishing lake: Janez Valvasor, Lake Cerknica and the New Philosophy
  3. Annals of Medicine 2 (1919): 228–40.
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