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Overview of the events of 1750 in science
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1750 in science
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Fields
Archaeology
Technology
Sustainable energy research
Transportation technology
Social sciences
Psychology
Governance and policy studies
Paleontology
Dinosaurs' extinction
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Literature
Timeline of cosmological theories
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The year
1750 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Thomas Wright
suggests that the
Milky Way
Galaxy
is a disk-shaped system of
stars
with the
Solar System
near the centre.
Exploration
April 1 –
Pehr Osbeck
sets out on a primarily botanical expedition to
China
.
Physics
January 17 –
John Canton
reads a paper before the
Royal Society
on a method of making artificial
magnets
.
[1]
Approx. date
–
Leonhard Euler
and
Daniel Bernoulli
develop the
Euler–Bernoulli beam equation
.
Technology
November 18 –
Westminster Bridge
across the
River Thames
in
London
, designed by the
Swiss
-born engineer
Charles Labelye
, is officially opened.
[2]
Publications
Historia Plantarum
, originally written by
Conrad Gessner
between 1555 and 1565.
Awards
Copley Medal
:
George Edwards
[3]
Births
March 16 –
Caroline Herschel
, German-born English astronomer (died
1848
)
July 2 –
François Huber
, Swiss naturalist (died
1831
)
July 5 –
Ami Argand
,
Genevan
physicist and chemist (died
1803
)
September 22 –
Christian Konrad Sprengel
, German botanist (died
1816
)
October 25 –
Marie Le Masson Le Golft
, French naturalist (died
1826
)
Aaron Arrowsmith
, English cartographer (died
1823
)
Jean Nicolas Fortin
, French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in
1800
(died
1831
)
Deaths
December 1 –
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born
1677
)
References
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
313–314
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
Weinreb, Ben
;
Hibbert, Christopher
(1995).
The London Encyclopaedia
. Macmillan. p. 976.
ISBN
0-333-57688-8
.
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
21 July
2020
.
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