1739 in science

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The year 1739 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Exploration

• January 1 - Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Mathematics

• Leonhard Euler solves the general homogeneous linear ordinary differential equation with constant coefficients.
• Euler invents the tonnetz (German for "tone-network"), a conceptual lattice diagram that shows a two-dimensional tonal pitch space created by the network of relationships between musical pitches in just intonation.

Physics

• Émilie du Châtelet publishes Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Stephen Hales

Societies

• June 2 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is founded in Stockholm by Linnaeus, Mårten Triewald and others.

Births

• December 14 - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (d. 1817)

Deaths

• April 19 - Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician (b. 1682)
• April 27 - Nicolas Sarrabat, French scientist, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1698)