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The year '''1705 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* [[Edmond Halley]], in his ''Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae'', states that [[comet]]s seen in 1456, 1531, 1607, and 1682 were actually [[Halley's Comet|a single comet]] and correctly predicts that it will return in [[1758 in science|1758]].

==Life sciences==
* Dutch [[lepidopterist]] [[Maria Merian]] publishes ''Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium''.
* French [[anatomist]] [[Raymond Vieussens]] publishes ''Novum vasorum corporis humani systema'', considered an early classic work on [[cardiology]].
* French [[surgeon]] [[Jean Louis Petit]] publishes ''L'Art de guerir les maladies des os'', the first significant work on bone disease.

==Other events==
* April 16 – [[Isaac Newton]] is [[knight]]ed by [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]], at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>

==Births==
* February 22 – [[Peter Artedi]], Swedish naturalist (died [[1735 in science|1735]])
* April 11 – [[William Cookworthy]], English chemist (died [[1780 in science|1780]])
* June 21 – [[David Hartley (philosopher)|David Hartley]], English physician and psychologist (died [[1757 in science|1757]])
* ''undated'' – [[Charles Labelye]], Swiss engineer (died c. [[1781 in science|1781]])
* ''undated'' – [[Thomas Boulsover]], English inventor (died [[1788 in science|1788]])
* ''undated'' – [[Faustina Pignatelli]], Italian mathematician (died [[1785 in science|1785]])

==Deaths==
* January 17 – [[John Ray]], English naturalist (born [[1627 in science|1627]])
* August 16 – [[Jakob Bernoulli]], Swiss mathematician (born [[1654 in science|1654]])
* October 11 – [[Guillaume Amontons]], French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (born [[1663 in science|1663]])
* November 10 – [[Justine Siegemund]], German [[Midwifery|midwife]] (born [[1636 in science|1636]])

==References==
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