1736 in science
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The year 1736 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Botany
- Charles Marie de La Condamine, with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of rubber, in Ecuador.[1]
[edit] 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.[2]
[edit] 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".[3]
- 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).[4]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 19 - James Watt, Scottish mechanical engineer (d. 1819)
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
- September 16 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist and engineer (b. 1686)
[edit] References
- ^ Journal du voyage fait par ordre du roi à l'équateur. Paris. 1751.
- ^ Piippola, Takalo. "Maupertuis'n astemittaus Tornionlaaksossa 1736-1737" (in Finnish). http://www4.rovaniemi.fi/lapinkavijat/maupertuis/index.html. Retrieved 2008-03-23.[dead link]
- ^ Theorematum Quorundam ad Numeros Primos Spectantium Demonstratio.
- ^ An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst.
