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The year1688 inscienceandtechnologyincluded a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
[edit]- TheconstellationSceptrum Brandenburgicumis named byGottfried Kirch.
Exploration
[edit]- AFrenchJesuitscientific mission led byJean de Fontaneyarrives inChina.[1]
Mathematics
[edit]- Simon de la Loubèreintroduces theSiamese methodfor constructing any size ofn-oddmagic squaretoWestern Europe.[2]
Technology
[edit]- Earliest known mention of thebalalaika.
Births
[edit]- January 29 –Emanuel Swedenborg,Swedishscientistandtheologian(died1772)
- April 4 –Joseph-Nicolas Delisle,Frenchastronomer(died1768)
- August 14 –Johann Leonhard Rost,Germanastronomer (died1727)
- September 26 –Willem 's Gravesande,Dutchpolymath(died1742)
- November 15 –Louis Bertrand Castel,French Jesuitmathematicianandphysicist(died1757)
Deaths
[edit]- January 28 –Ferdinand Verbiest,FlemishJesuit astronomer in China (born1623)
- October 9 –Claude Perrault,Frencharchitectandphysicist(born1613)
- November 11 –Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie,Frenchhorticulturalist(born1626)
References
[edit]- ^Mungello, David E. (1989).Curious Land: Jesuit accommodation and the origins of Sinology.University of Hawaii Press.ISBN0-8248-1219-0.
- ^Higgins, Peter (2008).Number Story: From Counting to Cryptography.New York: Copernicus. p. 54.ISBN978-1-84800-000-1.