- 1700 in science
The year 1700 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events.General
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July 11 - ThePrussian Academy of Sciences is founded with Leibniz as president. [cite web |url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/Berlin.html |title=Berlin Academy of Science |author=O'Connor, John J |coauthors=Edmund F Robertson |month=August | year=2004 |work=MacTutor History of Mathematics]Geology
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January 26 -1700 Cascadia earthquake : At approximately 9 p.m., a giganticearthquake ripped across the present-day west coast ofCanada and theUnited States along theCascadia subduction zone , across more than 600 miles (966 km) fromVancouver Island toCape Mendocino . The magnitude of the earthquake is estimated to have been between 8.7 and 9.2. At that time there was no written documentation of the event, however, the Orphan Tsunami of 1700, which it triggered, hit Japan approximately 10 hours later, flooding fields and washing away houses. [cite web |url=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/pacnw/paleo/greateq/index.html |title=The Great Cascadia Earthquake of 26 January AD 1700 |publisher=USGS]Technology
* (c. 1700) The
clarinet might have been invented by the German flute makerJohann Christoph Denner as a modification of thechalumeau , but it was not until the late18th century that composers included clarinets into their orchestrations. [cite web |url=http://www.tcnj.edu/~mckinney/a_short_history.htm |title=A Short History |work=Clarinet Compendium |author=McKinney, Roger W.]Births
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February 8 -Daniel Bernoulli ,mathematician (died 1782)
*November 19 -Jean-Antoine Nollet , clergyman andphysicist (died 1770)
*November 28 -Nathaniel Bliss ,astronomer (died 1764)
* "undated" -William Braikenridge , clergyman andgeometer (died 1762) [cite web |url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Braikenridge.html |title=William Braikenridge |author=O'Connor, John J |coauthors=Edmund F Robertson |month=November | year=1999 |work=MacTutor History of Mathematics]Deaths
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May 22 -Louis Jolliet ,explorer (born 1645)
* "undated" -Kamalakara ,astronomer andmathematician (born 1616)References
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