1742 in science
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The year 1742 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- James Bradley succeeds Edmond Halley as Astronomer Royal in Great Britain.
[edit] Mathematics
- June - Christian Goldbach produces Goldbach's conjecture.[1]
[edit] Physiology and medicine
- Surgeon Joseph Hurlock publishes his A Practical Treatise upon Dentition, or The breeding of teeth in children in London, the first treatise in English on dentition.
[edit] Technology
- Benjamin Robins publishes his New Principles of Gunnery, containing the determination of the force of gun-powder and an investigation of the difference in the resisting power of the air to swift and slow motions in London, containing a description of his ballistic pendulum and the results of his scientific experiments into improvements in ballistics.[2][3][4]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- May 18 - Lionel Lukin, English inventor (died 1834).
- December 3 - James Rennell, English geographer, historian and oceanographer (died 1830).
- December 9 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (died 1786).
- December 26 - Ignaz von Born, Hungarian metallurgist (died 1791).
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 - Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (born 1656).
- February 28 - Willem 's Gravesande, Dutch polymath (born 1688).
- May 13 - Nicolas Andry, French physician (born 1658).
- September 22 - Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (born 1708).
[edit] References
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ "Chronograph". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Chronograph. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
- ^ Routh, Edward John (1905). The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies. London: Macmillan.
- ^ Ferguson, Niall (2011). Civilization: The West and the Rest. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-1-84614-273-4.
