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

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See also: 1749 in science, other events of 1750, 1751 in science and the list of years in science.

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Astronomy

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

Exploration

  • April 1 – Pehr Osbeck sets out on a primarily botanical expedition to China.

Mathematics

  • English mathematician Thomas Simpson formulates the Weber problem, and solves it geometrically in the triangle case.

Physics

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

Technology

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

Publications

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

Awards

  • Copley Medal: George Edwards

Births

  • March 16 – Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (died 1848)
  • July 2 – François Huber, Swiss naturalist (died 1831)
  • July 5 – Ami Argand, Genevan 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)

Deaths

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

References