1742 in science

none 1742 science 1742 The year 1742 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy January 14 – Death of Edmond Halley; James Bradley succeeds him as Astronomer Royal in Great Britain. Mathematics June – Christian Goldbach produces Goldbach's conjecture.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 37 Colin Maclaurin publishes his Treatise on Fluxions in Great Britain, the first systematic exposition of Newton's methods. Metrology Anders Celsius publishes his proposal for a centigrade temperature scale originated in 1741.Celsius, Anders (1742). "Observationer om twänne beständiga grader på en thermometer" (Observations about two stable degrees on a thermometer). Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar (Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) 3:171-180 and . 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. 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.Frederick John Jervis-Smith Chronograph 6 302The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies https://archive.org/details/elementarypartof00routrich Edward John Routh 1905 London MacmillanFerguson Niall Niall Ferguson Civilization: The West and the Rest London Allen Lane 2011 978-1-84614-273-4 The first large (12 ft focal length) reflecting telescope is made, in Gregorian form, by James Short, for use by Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, in London.Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inventory 98721 (exhibit label noted 2012). Awards Copley Medal: Christopher Middleton.Copley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births March 15 (bapt.) – John Stackhouse, English botanist (died 1819). 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). 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). References Category:18th century in science Category:1740s in science