1742 in science
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The year 1742 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- James Bradley succeeds Edmond Halley as Astronomer Royal in Great Britain.
Mathematics
- June – Christian Goldbach produces Goldbach's conjecture.[1]
Physiology and medicine
- Surgeon Joseph Hurlock publishes his A Practical Treatise upon Dentition, or The breeding of teeth in children in London, the first treatise in English on dentition.
Technology
- Benjamin Robins publishes his New Principles of Gunnery, containing the determination of the force of gun-powder and an investigation of the difference in the resisting power of the air to swift and slow motions in London, containing a description of his ballistic pendulum and the results of his scientific experiments into improvements in ballistics.[2][3][4]
- The first large (12 ft focal length) reflecting telescope is made, in Gregorian form, by James Short, for use by Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, in London.[5]
Awards
Births
- May 18 – Lionel Lukin, English inventor (died 1834).
- December 3 – James Rennell, English geographer, historian and oceanographer (died 1830).
- December 9 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (died 1786).
- December 26 – Ignaz von Born, Hungarian metallurgist (died 1791).
Deaths
- January 14 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (born 1656).
- February 28 – Willem 's Gravesande, Dutch polymath (born 1688).
- May 13 – Nicolas Andry, French physician (born 1658).
- September 22 – Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (born 1708).
References
- ↑ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ↑ "Chronograph". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
- ↑ Routh, Edward John (1905). The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies. London: Macmillan.
- ↑ Ferguson, Niall (2011). Civilization: The West and the Rest. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-1-84614-273-4.
- ↑ Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inventory 98721 (exhibit label noted 2012).