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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.

Mathematics

  • Daniel Bernoulli expresses the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in terms of the golden ratio.
  • 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.

Institutions

  • January 28 – The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences is founded by Peter I of Russia.

Births

  • March 27 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, French mathematician (died 1767)

Deaths

  • October 18 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (born 1647)

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