The year 1697 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Technology August – Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, studies shipbuilding and other technologies in Holland as part of his incognito Grand Embassy to western Europe.
Organizations January – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle becomes perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, in succession to Jean-Baptiste du Hamel.
Publications First known publication of English physician Richard Boulton, A Treatise of the Reason of Muscular Motion. William Dampier publishes A New Voyage Round the World in London.
Births February 24 – Bernhard Siegfried Weiss, later known as Albinus, German-born Dutch anatomist (died 1770) February 5 – William Smellie, Scottish obstetrician (died 1763) September 23 – Andrew Plummer, Scottish physician and chemist (died 1756)
Deaths January 26 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (born 1640) March 1 – Francesco Redi, Tuscan physician and biologist (born 1626) June 12 – Ann Baynard, English natural philosopher (born 1672) Late October – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch statesman and telescope maker (born 1628) December 9 – Scipion Abeille, French surgeon and poet Probable year – Gilbert Clerke, English mathematician, natural philosopher and theologian (born 1626)
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