Editing 1699 in science (section)

==Paleontology==
* [[Edward Lhuyd]] produces the first published scientific treatment of what would now be recognized as a [[dinosaur]], describing and naming a [[sauropod]] [[tooth]], "[[Rutellum|Rutellum implicatum]]" found at Caswell, near [[Witney, Oxfordshire]], [[England]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lhuyd|first=E.|year=1699|title=Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, sive lapidium aliorumque fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium|publisher=Gleditsch and Weidmann|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Delair|first=J.B.|author2=Sarjeant, W.A.S.|year=2002|title=The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined|journal=Proceedings of the Geologists' Association|volume=113|issue=3 |pages=185–197|doi=10.1016/S0016-7878(02)80022-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gunther|first=R.T.|year=1945|title=Early Science in Oxford: Life and Letters of Edward Lhuyd, volume 14|location=Oxford}}</ref>