1750 in science

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The year 1750 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy is a disk-shaped system of stars with the solar system near the centre.

January 17 – John Canton reads a paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets.^[1]
Approx. date – Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli develop the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation.

November 18 – Westminster Bridge across the River Thames in London, designed by the Swiss-born engineer Charles Labelye, is officially opened.^[2]

Historia Plantarum, originally written by Conrad Gessner between 1555 and 1565.

March 16 – Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (died 1848)
July 2 – François Huber, Swiss naturalist (died 1831)
July 5 – Aimé Argand, Swiss physicist and chemist (died 1803)
September 22 – Christian Konrad Sprengel, German botanist (died 1816)
October 25 – Marie Le Masson Le Golft, French naturalist (died 1826)
Aaron Arrowsmith, English cartographer (died 1823)
Jean Nicolas Fortin, French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in 1800 (died 1831)

December 1 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born 1677)

↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 313–314. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 976. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.

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