1738 in science
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The year 1738 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy[edit]
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which confirms Newton's view that the Earth is an oblate spheroid slightly flattened at the poles.
Botany[edit]
- Publication of Hortus Cliffortianus, a detailed description by Linnaeus of George Clifford's gardens at Hartekamp, Netherlands, including the raising of exotic plants such as bananas in a greenhouse.
- Publication of Rariorum Africanarum plantarum, a flora of Cape Colony by Johannes Burman, begins publication in Amsterdam.
Mathematics[edit]
- Abraham de Moivre publishes the second English edition of his The Doctrine of Chances containing a study of the coefficients in the binomial expansion of (a + b)n.
Medicine[edit]
- February – Great Plague of 1738, an outbreak of bubonic plague, begins to spread from Banat across central Europe.[1]
- Establishment of The Mineral Water Hospital in Bath, England.
Metallurgy[edit]
- July 1 – William Champion of Bristol patents a process to distill zinc from calamine using charcoal in a smelter.[2]
Technology[edit]
- June 24 – Lewis Paul and John Wyatt obtain a British patent for roller cotton-spinning machinery.
- Jacques de Vaucanson presents the world's first automaton, The Flute Player (1737) to the French Academy of Sciences.
- Black Forest clockmaker Franz Ketterer produces one of the earliest cuckoo clocks.
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Births[edit]
- November 15 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (died 1822)
Deaths[edit]
- June 21 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English agriculturalist (born 1674)
- September 23 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician (born 1668)
References[edit]
- ^ "XVIII Century". Banat's Historical Chronology for the last Millennium. Genealogy RO Group. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
- ^ Woodcroft, Bennet (1854). Titles of Patents of Invention, Chronologically Arranged. London: Queen's Printing Office. pp. 104–105.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.