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1739 in science
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1739 in
science
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involved some significant events.
Contents
Earth sciences
Exploration
Mathematics
Physics
Awards
Societies
Births
Deaths
References
Earth sciences
Plinian eruption
of
Mount Tarumae
volcano
in Japan.
Exploration
January 1 –
Bouvet Island
is discovered by
French
explorer
Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
in the South
Atlantic Ocean
.
Mathematics
Leonhard Euler
solves the general homogeneous linear ordinary differential equation with constant coefficients.
Euler invents the
tonnetz
(German for "tone-network"), a conceptual
lattice
diagram
that shows a two-dimensional tonal
pitch space
created by the network of relationships between
musical pitches
in
just intonation
.
[
1
]
[
2
]
Physics
Émilie du Châtelet
publishes
Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu
.
Awards
Copley Medal
:
Stephen Hales
[
3
]
Societies
June 2 – The
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
is founded in
Stockholm
by
Linnaeus
,
Mårten Triewald
and others.
[
4
]
Births
November 14 –
William Hewson
, English surgeon, anatomist and physiologist, "father of haematology" (died
1774
)
December 14 –
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
, French
industrialist
(died
1817
)
Israel Lyons
, English mathematician and botanist (died
1775
)
Deaths
April 19 –
Nicholas Saunderson
, English scientist and mathematician (born
1682
)
April 27 –
Nicolas Sarrabat
, French scientist, astronomer and mathematician (born
1698
)
References
↑
Euler, Leonhard.
Tentamen novae theoriae musicae
.
↑
Derbyshire, John
(Spring 2007).
"Euler's Constancy"
.
The Wilson Quarterly
. Archived from
the original
on 2007-10-11
. Retrieved
2008-01-03
.
↑
"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
21 July
2020
.
↑
"History"
. Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien
. Retrieved
2011-09-27
.
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