1707 in science

The year 1707 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Geophysics

May 23 â Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins.
October 28 â The HÅei earthquake ruptures all segments of the Nankai megathrust simultaneously â the only earthquake known to have done this. It is the most powerful in Japan until 2011, with an estimated local magnitude of 8.6.
December 16 â HÅei eruption, the last eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan, begins.

Publication of Arithmetica universalis, the collected works of Isaac Newton on algebra.
Abraham de Moivre derives de Moivre's formula.

John Floyer, in The Physician's Pulse Watch, introduces counting of pulse rate during one minute.
Giovanni Maria Lancisi publishes De Subitaneis Mortibus (On Sudden Death), an early work in cardiology.
Georg Ernst Stahl publishes Theoria medica vera: physiologiam & pathologiam.

January 11 â Vincenzo Riccati, Italian mathematician (died 1775)
April 10 â John Pringle, Scottish physician (died 1782)
April 15 â Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (died 1783)
April 26 â Johannes Burman, Dutch botanist (died 1780)
May 23 â Carl Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist (died 1778)
June 22 (bapt.) â Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish-born botanical illustrator (died 1758)
September 7 â Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (died 1788)
December 22 â Johann Amman, Swiss-Russian botanist (died 1741)
date unknown â Benjamin Robins, English scientist and engineer (died 1751)