1718 in science
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The year 1718 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Chemistry
- Étienne François Geoffroy presents the first ever table of chemical affinity (based on displacement reactions) to the French Academy of Sciences.
Mathematics
- Abraham de Moivre publishes The Doctrine of Chances: a method of calculating the probabilities of events in play in English, which goes through several editions.[1][2]
Medicine
- The Charitable Infirmary, Dublin, is founded by six surgeons in Ireland, the first public voluntary hospital in the British Isles.[3][4]
Technology
- May 15 – James Puckle patents the Puckle Gun, an early form of machine gun, in England.[5]
Births
- May 16 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (died 1799)
- May 23 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (died 1783)
- Salomée Halpir (née Rusiecki), Lithuanian physician (died after 1763)
Deaths
- March 11 – Guy-Crescent Fagon, French physician and botanist (born 1638)
- April – James Petiver, English naturalist and apothecary (born c. 1665)
- December 9 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopedist (born 1650)
References
- ↑ The Doctrine of Chances
- ↑ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ↑ Widdess, J. D. H. (1968). The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, Dublin, 1718–1968. Dublin.
- ↑ O'Brien, Eoin, ed. (1987). The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, 1718-1987: a farewell tribute. Monkstown: Anniversary Press. ISBN 1870940016.
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.