1743 in science
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The year 1743 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- November 29 â Discovery of C/1743 X1, the 'Great Comet of 1744' (sic.), by Jan de Munck at Middelburg and subsequently by de Chéseaux and Klinkenberg.[1]
Geology
- Sir Christopher Packe produces a geological map of south-east England.
Metrology
- May 19 â French physicist Jean-Pierre Christin of Lyon publishes the design of a mercury thermometer with a centigrade scale running from 0 representing the freezing point of water and 100 its boiling point.
Physiology and medicine
- June 2 â British surgeon William Hunter presents his paper "Of the structure and diseases of articulating cartilages".[2]
Awards
Births
- February 13 â Joseph Banks, English botanist (died 1820)
- February 28 â René Just Haüy, French mineralogist (died 1822)
- April 13 (April 2 O.S.) â Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and 3rd President of the United States and inventor (died 1826)
- June 3 â Lucia Galeazzi Galvani, Italian scientist (died 1788)
- August 17 â Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, German geographer and zoologist (died 1815)
- August 26 â Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (died 1794)
- September 17 â Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher and political scientist (died 1794)
- October 20 â François Chopart, French surgeon (died 1795)
- November 11 â Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist (died 1828)
- December 1 â Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (died 1817)
- Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Swedish botanist (died 1782)