1724 in science

The year 1724 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

May 22 – Giacomo F. Maraldi concludes, from his observations during an eclipse, that the corona is part of the Sun.{{cite web|title=Chronology of Discoveries About the Sun|url=http://www.mreclipse.com/Totality2/TotalityApH.html|work=MrEclipse.com|year=1999|accessdate=2012-07-03}}

Daniel Bernoulli expresses the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in terms of the golden ratio.{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8|page=44}}
Isaac Watts publishes Logic, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences.

Herman Boerhaave describes Boerhaave syndrome, a fatal tearing of the esophagus.{{cite book|last=Boerhaave|first=H.|title=Atrocis, nec descripti prius, morbii historia: secundum medicae artis leges conscripta|location=Leiden|publisher=Lugduni Batavorum Boutesteniana|year=1724}}

January 28 – The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences is founded by Peter I of Russia.{{cite web|url=http://www.ras.ru/about.aspx|script-title=ru:Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к|publisher=Russian Academy of Sciences|language=Russian}}

March 27 – Jane Colden, American botanist (died 1766)
June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (died 1792)
July 10 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish agronomist, first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (died 1786)
September 27 – Anton Friedrich Busching, German geographer (died 1793)
December 25 – John Michell, English scientist (died 1793)
Date unknown – Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, French mathematician (died 1767)

October 18 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (born 1647){{cite web|title=Jean de Hautefeuille (1647-1724)|url=http://data.bnf.fr/13007786/jean_de_hautefeuille/|website=data.bnf.fr|accessdate=4 April 2018|language=en}}