1709 in Science - Deaths

Deaths

  • early - Eleanor Glanville, English entomologist (born c.1654)
  • June 29 - Antoine Thomas, Belgian Jesuit astronomer in China (born 1644)
  • June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist (born 1660)
  • October 17 - François Mauriceau, French obstetrician (born 1637)

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