1737 in science

none 1737 science 1737 The year 1737 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy May 28 – The planet Venus passes in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening by amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in England.Bakich Michael E. The Cambridge Planetary Handbook 2000 Cambridge University Press 9780521632805 103 https://books.google.com/books?id=PE99nOKjbXAC&pg=PA103 en Botany February 27 – French scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study correlating past weather conditions with an examination of tree rings."On the cause of the eccentricity of the woody layers which one perceives when one cuts horizontally the trunk of a tree" (De la cause de l'excentricité des couches ligneuses qu'on apperçoit quand on coupe horisontalement le tronc d'un arbre). Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal, with her own colour illustrations, is published in London.A Curious Herbal https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/a-curious-herbal-dandelion The British Library 21 March 2019 Johannes Burman's Thesaurus zeylanicus, a flora of Ceylon, is published in Amsterdam. Geology Francesco Serao is the first person to use the word lava in connection with extruded magma in a short account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius which took place between May 14 and June 4.Duffin C. J. Gardner-Thorpe C. Moody R. T. J. Geology and Medicine: Historical Connections 2017 Geological Society of London 9781786202833 60 https://books.google.com/books?id=FCg5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60 en October 11 – An earthquake in Calcutta, India is said to have caused 300,000 deaths; this is now in question: it was probably a cyclone, with deaths estimated at 3,000.Gates Alexander E. Ritchie David Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes 2006 Infobase Publishing 9780816072705 38 https://books.google.com/books?id=b1sXfJCiCHQC&pg=PA38 en October 16 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.3 strikes offshore of the Kamchatka Peninsula.Dasgupta Samir Şiriner İsmail De Partha Sarathi Women's Encounter with Disaster 2010 ismail siriner 9788190884143 250 https://books.google.com/books?id=tBlzFssoovMC&pg=PA250 en Mathematics Divergence of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes proved by Leonhard Euler.Leonhard Euler Variae observationes circa series infinitas Various observations concerning infinite series Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Petropolitanae 9 1737 160–188 Technology John Harrison is given an award from the longitude prize to continue his work on development of a stable marine chronometer in England.Longitude found: John Harrison https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/longitude-found-john-harrison Royal Museums Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site In London 21 March 2019 en 7 October 2015 Publications Venetian polymath Francesco Algarotti publishes Newtonianism for Ladies, or Dialogues on Light and Colours (Neutonianismo per le dame).Ritchie Stefka Samuel Johnson's Pragmatism and Imagination 2018 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781527521094 76 https://books.google.com/books?id=WzJ3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 en Awards Copley Medal: John Belchiermedal https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=950403&partId=1&searchText=copley+medal&page=1 British Museum 21 March 2019 Births January 4 – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, French chemist and politician (died 1816) August 14 – Charles Hutton, English mathematician (died 1823) September 9 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (died 1798)Luigi Galvani Italian physician and physicist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Luigi-Galvani Encyclopedia Britannica 21 March 2019 en Deaths References Category:18th century in science Category:1730s in science