1712 in science

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The year 1712 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

• John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica is first published, against his will and without credit by Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley, introducing Flamsteed designations. (A final version, approved by Flamsteed, is published posthumously in 1725.)

Mathematics

• Giacomo F. Maraldi experimentally obtains the angle in the rhombic dodecahedron shape, still called the Maraldi angle.

Technology

• The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley to pump water out of mines in the Black Country of England.

Births

• March 8 - John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)
• March 27 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
• undated - Angélique du Coudray, French pioneer of modern midwifery (d. 1789)

Deaths

• February 2 - Martin Lister, English naturalist (b. c. 1638)
• March 25 - Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
• August 29 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
• September 14 - Giovanni Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)
• approx. date - Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician and inventor (b. 1647)