1701 in science

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The year 1701 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Medicine 2 Physics 3 Technology 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

Medicine

• Greek physician Giacomo Pylarini inoculates children with smallpox in Constantinople, in hopes of preventing more serious smallpox sickness when the children are older, thus becoming the first immunologist.^[1]

Physics

• Joseph Sauveur coins the French word acoustique, from which the English word acoustics is derived.^[2]

Technology

• The seed drill, invented by Jethro Tull, allows farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths.
• Sir Isaac Newton, reporting (anonymously) to the British Royal Society, describes creation of a liquid-in-glass thermometer that is 3-ft (1-m) long and has a two-inch (5-cm) diameter bulb using linseed oil.

Births

• January 28 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French geographer (died 1774)
• May 14 - William Emerson, English mathematician (died 1782)
• November 27 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (died 1744)

Deaths

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