1724 in science

none 1724 science 1724 The year 1724 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy May 22 – Giacomo F. Maraldi concludes, from his observations during an eclipse, that the corona is part of the Sun.Chronology of Discoveries About the Sun http://www.mreclipse.com/Totality2/TotalityApH.html MrEclipse.com 1999 2012-07-03 2020-10-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20201019152942/http://www.mreclipse.com/Totality2/TotalityApH.html dead Mathematics Daniel Bernoulli expresses the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in terms of the golden ratio.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 44 Isaac Watts publishes Logic, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences. Medicine Herman Boerhaave describes Boerhaave syndrome, a fatal tearing of the esophagus.Boerhaave H. Atrocis, nec descripti prius, morbii historia: secundum medicae artis leges conscripta Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Boutesteniana 1724 Institutions January 28 – The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences is founded by Peter I of Russia.http://www.ras.ru/about.aspx ru:Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Births March 27 – Jane Colden, American botanist (died 1766) June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (died 1792) July 10 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish agronomist, first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (died 1786) September 27 – Anton Friedrich Busching, German geographer (died 1793) December 25 – John Michell, English scientist (died 1793) Date unknown – Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, French mathematician (died 1767) Deaths October 18 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (born 1647)Jean de Hautefeuille (1647-1724) http://data.bnf.fr/13007786/jean_de_hautefeuille/ data.bnf.fr 4 April 2018 en References Category:18th century in science Category:1720s in science