1708 in science
The year 1708 in science and technology involved some significant events.- 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 by Johann Friedrich Böttger.
Births
- January 30 – Georg Dionysius Ehret, German artist, botanist and entomologist
- October 16 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician and scientist, founder of neurology
- October 22 – Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer
- October 27 – Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, French bridge engineer
Deaths
- August 1 – Edward Tyson, English comparative anatomist
- October 10 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer
- October 11 – Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician
- December 5 – Seki Takakazu, Japanese mathematician
- December 28 – Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist
