1734 in science
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The year 1734 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Mathematics
- George Berkeley publishes The Analyst, an empiricist critique of the foundations of infinitesimal calculus, influential in the development of mathematics.[1]
[edit] Zoology
- René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur begins publication of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes in Amsterdam.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- April 18 - Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedish botanist (d. 1819)
- May 23 - Franz Mesmer, German physician (d. 1815)
- September 3 - Joseph Wright, English painter of scientific subjects (d. 1797)
[edit] Deaths
- April 25 - Johann Conrad Dippel, German theologian, alchemist and physician (b. 1673)
[edit] References
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-84724-147-4.