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The year '''1699 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Biology==
* English physician [[Edward Tyson]] publishes ''[[Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man]]'', a pioneering work of [[comparative anatomy]].

==Exploration==
* July 26 – [[William Dampier]]'s expedition to [[New Holland (Australia)]] in [[HMS Roebuck (1690)|HMS ''Roebuck'']] reaches [[Dirk Hartog Island]] at the mouth of what he calls [[Shark Bay]] in [[Western Australia]] and begins producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010265b.htm|first=J.|last=Bach|title=Dampier, William (1651–1715)|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|year=1966|accessdate=2012-03-15}}</ref>
* ''approx. date'' – Sir [[Isaac Newton]] develops a [[Octant (instrument)#Newton's reflecting quadrant|reflecting quadrant]].

==Mathematics==
* [[Abraham Sharp]] calculates [[Pi|π]] to 72 digits using an [[arctan]] sequence (although only 71 are correct).

==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>

==Births==
* March 23 – [[John Bartram]], [[natural history|naturalist]] and [[explorer]], "father of American botany" (died [[1777 in science|1777]])
* August 17 – [[Bernard de Jussieu]], [[French people|French]] [[botanist]] (died [[1777 in science|1777]])
* September 12 – [[John Martyn (botanist)|John Martyn]], [[English people|English]] botanist (died [[1768 in science|1768]])

==Deaths==
* March 21 – [[Erhard Weigel]], [[German people|German]] [[mathematician]] and scientific populariser (born [[1625 in science|1625]])
* November 18 – [[Pierre Pomet]], French pharmacist (born [[1658 in science|1658]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Pomet, Pierre (1658-1699) |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13015643x |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr}}</ref>

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