1754 in science
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The year 1754 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- Immanuel Kant, German philosopher, postulates retardation of Earth's orbit.
Earth sciences
- Albert Brahms, Frisian Dijkgraaf, begins publication of Anfangsgründe der Deich und Wasser-Baukunst ("Principles of Dike and Aquatic Engineering") advocating scientific recording of tides.[1]
Mathematics
- John Joshua Kirby publishes the pamphlet Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy both in Theory and Practice containing William Hogarth's Satire on False Perspective.
- Lagrange begins to work on the problem of tautochrone.
Physics
- Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist, develops a lightning rod for Vienna General Hospital, perhaps independently of Benjamin Franklin's invention.
Births
- March 15 - Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist (died 1842)
- May 6 - Thomas Coke, English agriculturalist and geneticist (died 1842)
- June 4 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, German astronomer (died 1832)
- August 21 - William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor (died 1839)
- September 26 - Joseph Proust, French chemist (died 1826)
Deaths
- February 5 - Nicolaas Kruik (Cruquius), Dutch cartographer and meteorologist (born 1678)
- April 9 - Christan Wolff, German philosopher, mathematician and scientist (born 1679)
- April 15 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (born 1676)
- November 27 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (born 1667)
References
- ^ *Niemeyer, Hanz D.; Eiben, Hartmut; Rohde, Hans (1996), "History and heritage of German coastal entineering", in Kraus, Nicholas C., A Collection of Papers on the History of Coastal Engineering in Countries Hosting the International Coastal Engineering Conference 1950-1996, American Society of Civil Engineers, "far ahead of his contemporaries."
