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 Dresden or Meissen porcelain is produced in Saxony by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and developed after his death (October) by Johann Friedrich Bottger.

Births

January 30 - Georg Dionysius Ehret (d. 1770), German artist, botanist and entomologist.
October 16 - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician and scientist, founder of neurology (d. 1777)
October 22 - Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (d. 1742)

Deaths

October 10 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
11 October 1708 Death of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
December 5 - Seki Takakazu, Japanese mathematician (b. c.1642)
December 28 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)

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