1690 in science

Astronomy

Geography

Botany

  • French horticulturalist Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie's Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers is published posthumously.

Mathematics

  • Izeki Tomotoki (井関 知辰) of Osaka publishes Sampo-Hakki (算法発揮), in which he gives the resultant and the Laplace expansion of the determinant for the n×n case. At about this date, Tanaka Yoshizane (田中 由真) also describes and applies the resultant, in Sampo-Funkai (算法紛解).
  • Michel Rolle publishes Traité d'Algebre, in which he gives the first published description in Europe of Gaussian elimination.

Medicine

  • Justine Siegemund publishes Die Chur-Brandenburgische Hof-Wehemutter ("The Court Midwife"), the first medical textbook in German written by a woman.

Technology

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