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]
- Leonhard Euler introduces the integrating factor technique for solving first-order ordinary differential equations.
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
Births
- January 23 â Wolfgang von Kempelen, Hungarian inventor (died 1804)
- April 18 â Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedish botanist (died 1819)
- May 23 â Franz Mesmer, German physician (died 1815)
- September 3 â Joseph Wright, English painter of scientific subjects (died 1797)
Deaths
- February 1 â John Floyer, English physician (born 1649)
- April 25 â Johann Konrad Dippel, German theologian, alchemist and physician (born 1673)