1763 in science

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The year 1763 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

Publication of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille's Coelum australe stelliferum, cataloguing all his data from the southern hemisphere and including about 10,000 stars and a number of brighter star clusters and nebulae.
Publication of Edward Stone's The whole doctrine of parallaxes explained and illustrated by an arithmetical and geometrical construction of the transit of Venus over the sun, June 6th, 1761. Enriched with a new and general method of determining the places where any transit of this planet, and especially that which will be June 3d, 1769, may be best observed.

Thomas Bayes' solution to a problem of "inverse probability" is presented posthumously in his "Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances" read by Richard Price to the Royal Society,^[1] containing a statement of a special case of Bayes' theorem.^[2]

Edward Stone publishes his discovery of the medicinal properties of salicylic acid.^[3]

^ Bayes, Thomas (1764). "An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances. By the late Rev. Mr. Bayes, communicated by Mr. Price, in a letter to John Canton". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) 53: 370–418. doi:10.1098/rstl.1763.0053. http://www.stat.ucla.edu/history/essay.pdf.
^ McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch (2011). The Theory That Would Not Die. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300169690.
^ "An Account of the Success of the Bark of the Willow in the Cure of Agues. In a Letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, President of R.S. from the Rev. Mr. Edmund [sic.] Stone, of Chipping-Norton in Oxfordshire". Philosophical Transactions (London: Royal Society) 53. 1763.