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1681 in science
The year
1681 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Physiology and medicine
November 29 â The
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
is granted a royal charter.
John Mayow
gives the first known description of
mitral stenosis
.
Technology
May 15 â The
Canal du Midi
in
France
is opened officially as the
Canal Royal de Languedoc
.
Samuel Morland
demonstrates improvements in
water pump
s.
First known reference to a
corkscrew
.
Publications
Thomas Burnet
's
cosmogony
Telluris Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth
is published in England.
Spanish
Jesuit
astronomer
Eusebio Kino
publishes his observations of the
Great Comet of 1680
in
Mexico City
as
Exposisión astronómica de el cometa
, one of the earliest scientific treatises published by a European in the New World.
Births
August 12 âÂÂ
Vitus Bering
, Danish-born Russian
explorer
(died
1741
)
Deaths
Marie Fouquet
, French medical writer (born
1590
)
References