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The year '''1708 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Physiology and medicine==
* [[Herman Boerhaave]] publishes ''Institutiones medicae'', one of the earliest textbooks on [[physiology]].

==Technology==
* Calcareous [[hard-paste porcelain]] is produced at [[Dresden]] in [[Saxony]] by [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] and developed after his death (October) by [[Johann Friedrich Böttger]].

==Births==
* January 30 – [[Georg Dionysius Ehret]], German artist, [[botanist]] and [[entomologist]] (died [[1770 in science|1770]])
* October 16 – [[Albrecht von Haller]], Swiss [[physician]] and scientist, founder of [[neurology]] (died [[1777 in science|1777]])
* October 22 – [[Frederic Louis Norden]], Danish explorer (died [[1742 in science|1742]])
* October 27 – [[Jean-Rodolphe Perronet]], French bridge engineer (died [[1794 in science|1794]])

==Deaths==
* August 1 – [[Edward Tyson]], English [[comparative anatomist]] (born [[1651 in science|1651]])
* October 10 – [[David Gregory (mathematician)|David Gregory]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[astronomer]] (born [[1659 in science|1659]])
* October 11 – [[Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus]], German [[mathematician]] (born 1651)
* December 5 – [[Seki Takakazu]], Japanese mathematician (born c. [[1642 in science|1642]])
* December 28 – [[Joseph Pitton de Tournefort]], French [[botanist]] (born [[1656 in science|1656]])

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