1693 in science

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The year 1693 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Actuarial science

Botany

  • Publication of Charles Plumier's first work, Description des plantes de l'Amérique, in Paris, principally devoted to ferns.

Mathematics

  • Bernard Frénicle de Bessy's {{lang|fr|Des quarrez ou tables magiques}}, a treatise on magic squares, is published posthumously, describing all 880 essentially different normal magic squares of order 4.

Physiology and medicine

Births

Deaths

  • February 18 – Elias Tillandz, Swedish physician and botanist in Finland (born 1640)
  • October 4 – Sir Thomas Clayton, English physician, academic and politician (born c.1612)
  • December 22 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (born 1647){{cite journal|last1=Cook|first1=A.|title=Johann and Elizabeth Hevelius, astronomers of Danzig|pmid=10824438|journal=Endeavour|pages=8–12|date=2000|doi=10.1016/s0160-9327(99)01263-6|volume=24}}

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