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The year
1744 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Great Comet of 1744
, first sighted in
1743
, remains visible until April (
perihelion
about March 1).
[1]
Cartography
César-François Cassini de Thury
publishes a new
triangulated
map of France.
Earth sciences
Susanna Drury
's illustrations of the
Giant's Causeway
in northern
Ireland
are engraved by
François Vivares
in London (1743–4), bringing the rock formation to wide European notice.
[2]
Mathematics
Leonhard Euler
discovers the
catenoid
and proves it to be a
minimal surface
.
[3]
Medicine
By July –
Northampton General Hospital
established as Northampton Infirmary in England.
[4]
Awards
Copley Medal
:
Henry Baker
[5]
Births
March 7 -
Jean-Baptiste Dumangin
, French physician (died
1826
)
[6]
June 22 –
Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben
,
German
naturalist
(died
1777
)
August 1 –
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
,
French
naturalist (died
1829
)
August 16 –
Pierre Méchain
, French
astronomer
(died
1804
)
October 17 –
Andrew Duncan
,
Scottish
physician
(died
1828
)
Deaths
February 14 –
John Hadley
, English mathematician (born
1682
)
April 25 –
Anders Celsius
,
Swedish
astronomer
and thermometrician (born
1701
)
July 1 –
Catherine Jérémie
, French-Canadian botanist (born
1644
)
October 4/5 –
John Serson
, English inventor (in wreck of
HMS
Victory
(1737)
)
References
^
"C/1743 X1"
.
JPL Small-Body Database Browser
.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
. 1744-03-01
. Retrieved
2011-10-13
.
^
Anglesea, Martyn (2004).
"Drury , Susanna (b. 1698?, d. in or after 1770)"
.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
. Oxford University Press.
doi
:
10.1093/ref:odnb/59673
. Retrieved
2012-11-16
.
(subscription or
UK public library membership
required)
^
Euler, L. (1744). "Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes". In
Opera omnia
I
p. 24.
^
"Northampton General Hospital"
. Northamptonshire Heritage. Archived from
the original
on 2019-11-16
. Retrieved
2019-11-16
.
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
21 July
2020
.
^
Corlieu, Auguste (1901).
"Le docteur Dumangin de Château-Thierry et le cœur de Louis XVII"
.
Annales de la Société historique et archéologique de Château-Thierry
(in French): 103–107.
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