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1736 in science

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The year 1736 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Botany

  • Charles Marie de La Condamine, with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of rubber, in Ecuador.

Earth sciences

  • June 19 – French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in the Torne Valley of Finland.

Mathematics

  • June 8 – Leonhard Euler writes to James Stirling describing the Euler–Maclaurin formula, providing a connection between integrals and calculus.
  • Euler produces the first published proof of Fermat's "little theorem".
  • Sir Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions (1671), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published (posthumously) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations against the criticism of George Berkeley (anonymously).

Medicine

  • Early 1736 – The “Publick Workhouse and House of Correction” that is to become Bellevue Hospital in New York City is ready for occupancy.
  • c. October – Winchester County Hospital, established by Prebendary Alured Clarke, the first voluntary general hospital in the English provinces.

Awards

  • Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers

Births

  • January 19 – James Watt, Scottish mechanical engineer (died 1819)
  • January 25 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, Piedmont-born mathematician (died 1813)
  • June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (died 1806)
  • July 12 – Louis Lépecq de La Clôture, French epidemiologist (died 1804)
  • August 19 – Erland Samuel Bring, Swedish mathematician (died 1798)
  • November 3 – Christiaan Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer (died 1805)
  • John Arnold, Cornish-born watchmaker (died 1799)
  • Honoré Blanc, French gunsmith (died 1801)

Deaths

  • September 16 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German-born Dutch physicist and engineer (born 1686)
  • October 13 – Georges Mareschal, French surgeon (born 1658)

References

References

  1. (1751). "Journal du voyage fait par ordre du roi à l'équateur".
  2. Piippola, Takalo. "Maupertuis'n astemittaus Tornionlaaksossa 1736-1737".
  3. ''Theorematum Quorundam ad Numeros Primos Spectantium Demonstratio''.
  4. ''An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst''.
  5. (1998). "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898". Oxford University Press.
  6. Knights, Edwin M.. "Bellevue Hospital". History Magazine.
  7. "Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award".
  8. "James Watt {{!}} Biography, Inventions, Steam Engine, Significance, & Facts {{!}} Britannica".
  9. "Louis Lépecq de La Clôture (1736-1804)". BNF.
  10. "Mareschal, Georges (1658-1736)". Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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