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The year '''1681 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Physiology and medicine==
* November 29 – The [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] is granted a royal charter.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Three hundred years of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|first=Ronald H.|last=Girdwood|author-link=Ronald Girdwood|journal=[[The BMJ|British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Edition)]]|date=1981-09-05|volume=283|issue=6292|pages=651–654|doi=10.1136/bmj.283.6292.651|pmc=1506788|pmid=6790117}}</ref>
* [[John Mayow]] gives the first known description of [[mitral stenosis]].<ref>In his ''Opera Omnia Medico-Physica'', published at [[The Hague]], the 2nd edition of his ''Tractatus Quinque''.</ref>

==Technology==
* May 15 – The [[Canal du Midi]] in [[France]] is opened officially as the ''Canal Royal de Languedoc''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rolt|first=L. T. C.|authorlink=L. T. C. Rolt|title=From Sea to Sea: An Illustrated History of the Canal du Midi|publisher=Allen Lane|year=1973|location=London|isbn=0713904712}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Morland]] demonstrates improvements in [[water pump]]s.<ref>{{cite book|first=H. W.|last=Dickinson|title=Sir Samuel Morland: diplomat and inventor 1625-1695|url=https://archive.org/details/sirsamuelmorland0000dick|url-access=registration|location=Cambridge|publisher=Heffer for the Newcomen Society|year=1970|isbn=0-85270-061-X}}</ref>
* First known reference to a [[corkscrew]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=The Oxford Companion to Wine|title=corkscrew|url= http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/reference/oxford_entry.jsp?entry_id=827|access-date=2008-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227122849/http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/reference/oxford_entry.jsp?entry_id=827|archive-date=2009-02-27|url-status=dead|via=winepros.com.au}}</ref>

==Publications==
* [[Thomas Burnet (theologian)|Thomas Burnet]]'s [[cosmogony]] ''Telluris Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth'' is published in England.
* [[Spanish people|Spanish]] [[Jesuit]] [[astronomer]] [[Eusebio Kino]] publishes his observations of the [[Great Comet of 1680]] in [[Mexico City]] as ''Exposisión astronómica de el cometa'', one of the earliest scientific treatises published by a European in the New World.<ref>{{cite book|first=H. E.|last=Bolton|title=Kino's Historical Memoir of the Pimería Alta|url=https://archive.org/details/kinoshistorical01boltgoog|location=Cleveland, Ohio|publisher=Arthur H. Clark|year=1919}}</ref>

==Births==
* August 12 – [[Vitus Bering]], Danish-born Russian [[explorer]] (died [[1741 in science|1741]])

==Deaths==
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* [[Marie Fouquet]], French medical writer (born [[1590 in science|1590]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Madame François Fouquet (1590-1681)|url=http://data.bnf.fr/12459622/madame_francois_fouquet/|website=data.bnf.fr|accessdate=3 April 2018|language=en|archive-date=25 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725151029/http://data.bnf.fr/12459622/madame_francois_fouquet/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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