1690 in science explained
The year 1690 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Medicine
- Justine Siegemund publishes Die Chur-Brandenburgische Hof-Wehemutter ("The Court Midwife"), the first medical textbook in German written by a woman.
Technology
- February 3 – America's first paper money is printed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- A rudimentary working model of a liquid compass is introduced by Sir Edmond Halley at a meeting of the Royal Society.
- French physicist Denis Papin, while in Leipzig and having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric pressure on his 'digester', builds a working model of a reciprocating steam engine for pumping water, the first of its kind, though not efficient.
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