Editing 1693 in science

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The year '''1693 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Actuarial science==
* [[Edmond Halley]] publishes an article in ''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]]'' on [[Life annuity|life annuities]] featuring a [[life table]] constructed on the basis of statistics from [[Wrocław|Breslau]] provided by [[Caspar Neumann]].

==Botany==
* Publication of [[Charles Plumier]]'s first work, ''Description des plantes de l'Amérique'', in [[Paris]], principally devoted to [[fern]]s.

==Mathematics==
* [[Bernard Frénicle de Bessy]]'s {{lang|fr|Des quarrez ou tables magiques}}, a treatise on [[magic square]]s, is published posthumously, describing all 880 essentially different normal magic squares of order 4.

==Physiology and medicine==
* [[Flemish people|Flemish]] [[anatomist]] [[Philip Verheyen]], in his widely used text ''Corporis Humani Anatomia'', is the first to record the name of the [[Achilles tendon]].<ref>Chapter XV, p. 328: "quae vulgo dicitur ''chorda Achillis''".</ref>

==Births==
* March – [[James Bradley]], [[Astronomer Royal]] (died [[1762 in science|1762]])

==Deaths==
* February 18 – [[Elias Tillandz]], Swedish physician and botanist in Finland (born [[1640 in science|1640]])
* October 4 – [[Thomas Clayton (physician)|Sir Thomas Clayton]], English physician, academic and politician (born c.1612)
* December 22 – [[Elisabeth Hevelius]], Danzig astronomer (born [[1647 in science|1647]])<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Cook|first1=A.|title=Johann and Elizabeth Hevelius, astronomers of Danzig|pmid=10824438|journal=[[Endeavour (journal)|Endeavour]]|pages=8–12|date=2000|doi=10.1016/s0160-9327(99)01263-6|volume=24}}</ref>

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