The year1707 inscience andtechnology involved some significant events.

• May 23 –Volcanic eruption in theSantorini caldera begins.
• October 28 – TheHōei earthquake ruptures all segments of theNankai megathrust simultaneously – the only earthquake known to have done this. It is the most powerful in Japan until 2011, with an estimatedlocal magnitude of 8.6.
• December 16 –Hōei eruption, the last eruption ofMount Fuji in Japan, begins.

• Publication ofArithmetica universalis, the collected works ofIsaac Newton onalgebra.
• Abraham de Moivre derivesde Moivre's formula.

• John Floyer, inThe Physician's Pulse Watch, introduces counting ofpulse rate during one minute.
• Giovanni Maria Lancisi publishesDe Subitaneis Mortibus (On Sudden Death), an early work incardiology.
• Georg Ernst Stahl publishesTheoria medica vera: physiologiam & pathologiam.

• January 11 –Vincenzo Riccati, Italianmathematician (died1775)
• April 10 –John Pringle,Scottishphysician (died1782)
• April 15 –Leonhard Euler,Swissmathematician (died1783)
• April 26 –Johannes Burman,Dutchbotanist (died1780)
• May 23 –Carl Linnaeus,Swedishnaturalist (died1778)
• June 22(bapt.) –Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish-born botanical illustrator (died1758)
• September 7 –Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (died1788)
• December 22 –Johann Amman, Swiss-Russian botanist (died1741)
• date unknown –Benjamin Robins, English scientist andengineer (died1751)

• March 30 –Marquis de Vauban, Frenchmilitary engineer (born1633)
• Maria Clara Eimmart, German astronomer, engraver and designer (born1676)

• 1707 in science
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• 1700s in science

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