1734 in science

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The year 1734 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Mathematics

• George Berkeley publishes The Analyst, an empiricist critique of the foundations of infinitesimal calculus, influential in the development of mathematics.^[1]

Technology

• James Short constructs a Gregorian reflecting telescope with an aperture of 14 inches (36 cm).

Zoology

• René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur begins publication of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes in Amsterdam.

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers

Births

• April 18 – Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedish botanist (died 1819)
• May 23 – Franz Mesmer, German physician (died 1815)
• September 3 – Joseph Wright, English painter of scientific subjects (died 1797)

Deaths

• February 1 – John Floyer, English physician (born 1649)
• April 25 – Johann Conrad Dippel, German theologian, alchemist and physician (born 1673)

References

1. Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-84724-147-4.