1750 in science
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The year 1750 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy is a disk-shaped system of stars with the Solar System near the centre.
Exploration
- April 1 – Pehr Osbeck sets out on a primarily botanical expedition to China.
Physics
- January 17 – John Canton reads a paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/313 313–314]}}
- Approx. date – Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli develop the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation.
Technology
- November 18 – Westminster Bridge across the River Thames in London, designed by the Swiss-born engineer Charles Labelye, is officially opened.{{cite book|title=The London Encyclopaedia|first=Ben|last=Weinreb|authorlink1 = Ben Weinreb|author2=Hibbert, Christopher|authorlink2 = Christopher Hibbert|publisher=Macmillan|year=1995|isbn=0-333-57688-8|page=976}}
Publications
- Historia Plantarum, originally written by Conrad Gessner between 1555 and 1565.
Awards
Births
- March 16 – Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (died 1848)
- July 2 – François Huber, Swiss naturalist (died 1831)
- July 5 – Ami Argand, Genevan physicist and chemist (died 1803)
- September 22 – Christian Konrad Sprengel, German botanist (died 1816)
- October 25 – Marie Le Masson Le Golft, French naturalist (died 1826)
- Aaron Arrowsmith, English cartographer (died 1823)
- Jean Nicolas Fortin, French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in 1800 (died 1831)
Deaths
- December 1 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born 1677)