1757 in science
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The year 1757 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Tobias Mayer presents accurate tables of the Moon's motion to the Board of Longitude in Great Britain.
[edit] Medicine
- December 8 - Opening of the "New Lying-In" or Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, designed by Richard Cassels.
- Albrecht von Haller begins publication of Elementa physiologiae corporis humani in Switzerland.
[edit] Physics
- Leonhard Euler publishes his equations for inviscid flow.
[edit] Technology
- Benjamin Franklin invents a three-wheel clock movement, which later leads to several variants in the design of pendulum clocks.
- The Grubenmann brothers complete timber arch bridges in Switzerland which include the longest vehicular bridge spans extant at this date:[1]
- Crossing the Rhine at Schaffhausen in two spans of 52 m and 59 m (by Hans Ulrich)
- A single-span of 67 m at Reichenau (by Johannes)
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- May 24 - William Charles Wells, Scottish American physician (died 1817)
- June 22 - George Vancouver, English explorer (died 1798)
- July 11 - Johann Matthäus Bechstein, German naturalist (died 1822)
- August 9 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (died 1834)
[edit] Deaths
- January 9
- Louis Bertrand Castel, French Jesuit mathematician and physicist (born 1688)
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientific populariser (born 1657)
- August 28 - David Hartley, English physician and psychologist (born 1705)
- October 17 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French physicist (born 1683)
[edit] References
- ^ Troyano, Leonardo Fernández (2003). Bridge Engineering: a Global Perspective. London: Thomas Telford Publishing. pp. 158–9. ISBN 0-7277-3215-3. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0u5G8E3uPUAC&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=Wettingen+bridge+1778#v=onepage&q=Wettingen%20bridge%201778&f=false. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
