1746 in science

January 01, 1970

The year 1746 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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Chemistry edit

John Roebuck invents the lead-chamber process for the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709–1782) is credited with describing zinc as a separate metal.
Eva Ekeblad discovers how to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes.^[1]

Geology edit

Jean-Étienne Guettard presents the first mineralogical map of France to the French Academy of Sciences.
William Cookworthy discovers kaolin in Cornwall.^[2]

Mathematics edit

Jean le Rond d'Alembert develops the theory of complex numbers.
Patrick d'Arcy announces discovery of the principle of angular momentum in a form known as "the principle of areas" (areal velocity).^[3]
Scottish mathematician Matthew Stewart publishes Some General Theorems of Considerable use in the Higher Parts of Mathematics, including an account of Stewart's theorem on the measurement of the triangle.

Physics edit

Pierre Louis Maupertuis reads before the Berlin Science Academy the paper Recherche des Lois du Mouvement. He claims that nature acts in such a way as to minimize the product of mass times velocity times distance, in an incomplete but seminal idea that derives in what is known today as the Principle of least action.

Technology edit

Pierre Bouguer publishes a treatise on naval architecture, Traité du navire, which first explains use of the metacentric height as a measure of ships' stability.^[4]
John Muller publishes A Treatise Containing the Elementary Part of Fortification.

Zoology edit

Linnaeus publishes Fauna Svecica.

Awards edit

Copley Medal: Benjamin Robins^[5]

Births edit

January 4 – Benjamin Rush, Founding Father of the United States, chemist and physician (died 1813)
March 7 – André Michaux, French botanist (died 1802)
March 15 – Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist after whom the Venturi tube is named (died 1822)
May 9 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and geometer (died 1818)
July 7 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian Theatine monk, astronomer and mathematician (died 1826)
July 30 – Louise du Pierry, French astronomer (died 1807)
Isaac Swainson, English botanist (died 1812)

Deaths edit

June 14 – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (born 1698)
November 14 – Georg Steller, German naturalist (born 1709)

References edit

^ . Archived from the original on 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
^ Penderill-Church, John (1972). William Cookworthy 1705–1780: A Study of the Pioneer of True Porcelain Manufacture in England. Truro: Bradford Barton.
^ D'Arcy, M. le Chevalier (1747). "Principe Géneral de Dynamique". Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences. Paris: 348–356.
^ Ferreiro, Larrie D. (2007). Ships and Science: the Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600–1800. Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-262-06259-6.
^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

January 01, 1970

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