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Fields
Archaeology
Technology
Sustainable energy research
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The year
1749 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Pierre Bouguer
publishes
La figure de la terre
in
Paris
, describing some of the results of his work with
Charles Marie de La Condamine
on the
French Geodesic Mission
to
Peru
(begun in
1735
) to measure a degree of the
meridian arc
near the
equator
.
[1]
Biology
Georges-Louis Leclerc,
afterwards
Comte du Buffon
, begins publication of his
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière
.
Mathematics
April 12 –
Euler
produces the first proof of
Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares
, based on
infinite descent
.
[2]
Institutions
April 12 – Official opening of the
Radcliffe Library
in
Oxford
, built under the will of the
physician
John Radcliffe
(died
1714
) (although it does not become a primarily
science library
until 1810).
[3]
Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin
appointed Secretary of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
in
Stockholm
, a position he will hold until his death in
1783
.
Awards
Copley Medal
:
John Harrison
[4]
Births
February 4 –
Thomas Earnshaw
,
English
watchmaker
(died
1829
)
February 7 -
Philippe Petit-Radel
,
French
surgeon
(died
1815
)
[5]
March 23 –
Pierre-Simon Laplace
,
French
mathematician
and
astronomer
(died
1827
)
May 17 –
Edward Jenner
, English
physician
, inventor of the
smallpox
vaccine
(died
1823
)
September 6 –
Benjamin Bell
,
Scottish
surgeon (died
1806
)
September 25 –
Abraham Gottlob Werner
,
German
geologist
(died
1817
)
November 3 –
Daniel Rutherford
, Scottish
physician
,
chemist
and
botanist
noted for the isolation of
nitrogen
(died
1819
)
Deaths
September 10 –
Émilie du Châtelet
, French mathematician and
physicist
(born
1706
)
December 23 –
Mark Catesby
, English
naturalist
(born
1683
)
References
^
Ferreiro, Larrie (2011).
Measure of the Earth: the Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped our World
. New York: Basic Books. p. 376.
ISBN
978-0-465-01723-2
.
^
Letter to
Christian Goldbach
.
^
Guest, Ivor
(1991).
Dr. John Radcliffe and His Trust
. London: The Radcliffe Trust. p. 149.
ISBN
0-9502482-1-5
.
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
21 July
2020
.
^
Lemaitre, Nicole.
"Petit-Radel Philippe"
.
cths.fr
(in French). Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques
. Retrieved
10 March
2021
.
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