Deaths
- May 4 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (born 1616)
- May 23 (bur.) - John Kersey, English mathematician (born 1677)
- October 11 - Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch-born drainage engineer (born 1595).
- October 14 - Francis Glisson, English physician (born 1599?)
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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