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Last updated February 19, 2025

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.^[1]

Mathematics

Daniel Bernoulli expresses the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in terms of the golden ratio.^[2]
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.

Medicine

Herman Boerhaave describes Boerhaave syndrome, a fatal tearing of the esophagus.^[3]

Institutions

January 28 – The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences is founded by Peter I of Russia.^[4]

Births

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)

Deaths

October 18 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (born 1647)^[5]

References

↑ "Chronology of Discoveries About the Sun". MrEclipse.com. 1999. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
↑ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
↑ Boerhaave, H. (1724). Atrocis, nec descripti prius, morbii historia: secundum medicae artis leges conscripta. Leiden: Lugduni Batavorum Boutesteniana.
↑ Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (in Russian). Russian Academy of Sciences.
↑ "Jean de Hautefeuille (1647-1724)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2018.

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[1] "Chronology of Discoveries About the Sun". MrEclipse.com. 1999. Retrieved 2012-07-03.

[2] Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.

[3] Boerhaave, H. (1724). Atrocis, nec descripti prius, morbii historia: secundum medicae artis leges conscripta. Leiden: Lugduni Batavorum Boutesteniana.

[4] Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (in Russian). Russian Academy of Sciences.

[5] "Jean de Hautefeuille (1647-1724)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2018.

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