1750 in science

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The year 1750 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

• Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy is a disk-shaped system of stars with the solar system near the centre.

Exploration

• April 1 - Pehr Osbeck sets out on a primarily botanical expedition to China.

Physics

• January 17 - John Canton reads a paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets.
• Approx. date - Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli develop the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation.

Awards

• Copley Medal: George Edwards

Births

• March 16 - Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (died 1848)
• July 5 - Aimé Argand, Swiss physicist and chemist (died 1803)
• September 22 - Christian Konrad Sprengel, German botanist (died 1816)
• Aaron Arrowsmith, English cartographer (died 1823)
• Jean Nicolas Fortin, French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in 1800 (died 1831)

Deaths

• December 1 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born 1677)