1719 in science
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The year 1719 in science and technology involved some significant events some of which are enumerated here.
Botany
- Johann Jacob Dillenius publishes Catalogus plantarum sponte c. Gissam nascentium.
Births
- January 23 – John Landen, mathematician (died 1790)
- August 4 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, geologist (died 1767)
- August 20 – Christian Mayer, astronomer (died 1783)
- September 27 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, mathematician (died 1800)
- October 20 – Gottfried Achenwall, statistician (died 1772)
Deaths
- January 12 – John Flamsteed, astronomer (born 1646)
- March 13 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, alchemist and developer of porcelain manufacture (born 1682)
- June 24 – James Sutherland, botanist (born c.1638/9)
- November 8 – Michel Rolle, mathematician (born 1652)
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