1693 in science explained
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 French: 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
Notes and References
- Chapter XV, p. 328: "quae vulgo dicitur chorda Achillis".
- Cook. A.. Johann and Elizabeth Hevelius, astronomers of Danzig. 10824438. Endeavour. 8–12. 2000. 10.1016/s0160-9327(99)01263-6. 24.