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1734 in science

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The year 1734 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Mathematics

  • George Berkeley publishes The Analyst, an empiricist critique of the foundations of infinitesimal calculus, influential in the development of mathematics.
  • Leonhard Euler introduces the integrating factor technique for solving first-order ordinary differential equations.

Technology

  • James Short constructs a Gregorian reflecting telescope with an aperture of 14 in.

Zoology

  • René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur begins publication of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes in Amsterdam.

Awards

  • Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers

Births

  • January 23 – Wolfgang von Kempelen, Hungarian inventor (died 1804)
  • April 18 – Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedish botanist (died 1819)
  • May 23 – Franz Mesmer, German physician (died 1815)
  • September 3 – Joseph Wright, English painter of scientific subjects (died 1797)

Deaths

  • February 1 – John Floyer, English physician (born 1649)
  • April 25 – Johann Konrad Dippel, German theologian, alchemist and physician (born 1673)

References

References

  1. Crilly, Tony. (2007). "50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know". Quercus.
  2. "Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award".
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