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).

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers

Births

• January 19 - James Watt, Scottish mechanical engineer (d. 1819)
• January 25 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Piedmont-born mathematician (d. 1813)
• June 14 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806)
• August 19 - Erland Samuel Bring, Swedish mathematician (d. 1798)
• November 3 - Christiaan Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer (d. 1805)

Deaths

• September 16 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist and engineer (b. 1686)