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 annuities featuring a life table constructed on the basis of statistics from Breslau provided by Caspar Neumann.

Publication of Charles Plumier's first work, Description des plantes de l'Amérique, in Paris, principally devoted to ferns.

Bernard Frénicle de Bessy's Des quarrez ou tables magiques, a treatise on magic squares, is published posthumously, describing all 880 essentially different normal magic squares of order 4.

Flemish anatomist Philip Verheyen, in his widely used text Corporis Humani Anatomia, is the first to record the name of the Achilles tendon.^[1]

February 18 – Elias Tillandz, Swedish physician and botanist in Finland (born 1640)
October 4 – Sir Thomas Clayton, English physician, academic and politician (born c.1612)
December 22 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (born 1647)^[2]

^ Chapter XV, p. 328: "quae vulgo dicitur chorda Achillis".
^ Cook, A. (2000). "Johann and Elizabeth Hevelius, astronomers of Danzig". Endeavour. 24: 8–12. doi:10.1016/s0160-9327(99)01263-6. PMID 10824438.