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1736 in science
The year
1736 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Botany
Charles Marie de La Condamine
, with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of
rubber
, in
Ecuador
.
Earth sciences
June 19 âÂÂ
French Academy of Sciences
expedition led by
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
, with
Anders Celsius
, begins work on measuring a
meridian arc
in the
Torne Valley
of
Finland
.
Mathematics
June 8 âÂÂ
Leonhard Euler
writes to
James Stirling
describing the
EulerâÂÂMaclaurin formula
, providing a connection between
integral
s and
calculus
.
Euler
produces the first
published
proof of
Fermat's "little theorem"
.
Sir
Isaac Newton
's
Method of Fluxions
(1671), describing his method of
differential calculus
, is first published (posthumously) and
Thomas Bayes
publishes a defense of its logical foundations against the criticism of
George Berkeley
(anonymously).
Medicine
Early 1736 â The âÂÂPublick Workhouse and House of Correctionâ that is to become
Bellevue Hospital
in
New York City
is ready for occupancy.
c. October âÂÂ
Winchester County Hospital
, established by
Prebendary
Alured Clarke
, the first voluntary general hospital in the
English
provinces.
Awards
Copley Medal
:
John Theophilus Desaguliers
Births
January 19 âÂÂ
James Watt
, Scottish
mechanical engineer
(died
1819
)
January 25 âÂÂ
Joseph Louis Lagrange
,
Piedmont
-born
mathematician
(died
1813
)
June 14 âÂÂ
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
, French
physicist
(died
1806
)
July 12 âÂÂ
Louis Lépecq de La Clôture
, French
epidemiologist
(died
1804
)
August 19 âÂÂ
Erland Samuel Bring
, Swedish mathematician (died
1798
)
November 3 âÂÂ
Christiaan Brunings
, Dutch
hydraulic engineer
(died
1805
)
John Arnold
,
Cornish
-born
watchmaker
(died
1799
)
Honoré Blanc
, French
gunsmith
(died
1801
)
Deaths
September 16 âÂÂ
Gabriel Fahrenheit
, German-born Dutch
physicist
and
engineer
(born
1686
)
October 13 âÂÂ
Georges Mareschal
, French surgeon (born
1658
)
References