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1738 in science
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Fields
Archaeology
Technology
Sustainable energy research
Transportation technology
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Psychology
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Dinosaurs' extinction
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The year
1738 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
publishes
Sur la figure de la terre
, which confirms
Newton's
view that the Earth is an
oblate spheroid
slightly flattened at the poles.
Botany
Publication of
Hortus Cliffortianus
, a detailed description by
Linnaeus
of
George Clifford
's gardens at
Hartekamp
,
Netherlands
, including the raising of exotic plants such as
bananas
in a
greenhouse
.
Publication of
Rariorum Africanarum plantarum
, a
flora
of
Cape Colony
by
Johannes Burman
, begins publication in Amsterdam.
Mathematics
Abraham de Moivre
publishes the second
English
edition of his
The Doctrine of Chances
containing a study of the coefficients in the
binomial expansion
of
(
a + b
)
n
.
Medicine
February –
Great Plague of 1738
, an outbreak of
bubonic plague
, begins to spread from
Banat
across
central Europe
.
[
1
]
Establishment of
The Mineral Water Hospital
in
Bath, England
.
Metallurgy
July 1 –
William Champion
of
Bristol
patents
a process to distill
zinc
from
calamine
using
charcoal
in a
smelter
.
[
2
]
Technology
June 24 –
Lewis Paul
and
John Wyatt
obtain a British
patent
for roller
cotton-spinning machinery
.
Jacques de Vaucanson
presents the world's first
automaton
,
The Flute Player
(1737) to the
French Academy of Sciences
.
Black Forest
clockmaker
Franz Ketterer
produces one of the earliest
cuckoo clocks
.
Awards
Copley Medal
:
James Valoue
[
3
]
Births
November 15 –
William Herschel
,
German
-born
astronomer
(died
1822
)
Deaths
June 21 –
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
,
English
agriculturalist
(born
1674
)
September 23 –
Herman Boerhaave
,
Dutch
physician
(born
1668
)
References
^
"XVIII Century"
.
Banat's Historical Chronology for the last Millennium
. Genealogy RO Group
. Retrieved
2011-06-22
.
^
Woodcroft, Bennet
(1854).
Titles of Patents of Invention, Chronologically Arranged
. London: Queen's Printing Office. pp. 104–105.
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
21 July
2020
.