See also: 1700 in science, other events of 1701, 1702 in science, list of years in science.
Geology Edmund Halley suggests using the salinity and evaporation of the Mediterranean to determine the age of the Earth Births November 27 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (died 1744) Charles Marie de La Condamine, French geographer (died 1774) Deaths
