1694 in science

Botany

• Joseph Pitton de Tournefort publishes Éléments de botanique ou méthode pour reconnaître les plantes.
• Rudolf Jakob Camerarius publishes De Sexu Plantarum Epistola in which he demonstrates the role of stamens and pistils in plant reproduction.

  Births

• June 26 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist

  Deaths

• November 29 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physiologist