1737 in science

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The year 1737 in science and technology involved some significant events.

## Astronomy

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* May 28 – The planet Venus passes in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening by amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in England.[1]

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* February 27 – French scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study correlating past weather conditions with an examination of tree rings.[2]
* Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal, with her own colour illustrations, is published in London.[3]
* Johannes Burman's Thesaurus zeylanicus, a flora of Ceylon, is published in Amsterdam.

## Geology

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* Francesco Serao is the first person to use the word lava in connection with extruded magma in a short account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius which took place between May 14 and June 4.[4]
* October 11 – An earthquake in Calcutta, India is said to have caused 300,000 deaths; this is now in question: it was probably a cyclone, with deaths estimated at 3,000.[5]
* October 16 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.3 strikes offshore of the Kamchatka Peninsula.[6]

## Mathematics

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* Divergence of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes proved by Leonhard Euler.[7]

## Technology

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* John Harrison is given an award from the longitude prize to continue his work on development of a stable marine chronometer in England.[8]

## Publications

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* Venetian polymath Francesco Algarotti publishes Newtonianism for Ladies, or Dialogues on Light and Colours (Neutonianismo per le dame).[9]

## Awards

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* Copley Medal: John Belchier[10]

## Births

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* January 4 – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, French chemist and politician (died 1816)
* August 14 – Charles Hutton, English mathematician (died 1823)
* September 9 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (died 1798)[11]

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## References

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1. ^ Bakich, Michael E. (2000). The Cambridge Planetary Handbook. Cambridge University Press. p. 103\. ISBN 9780521632805.
2. ^ "On the cause of the eccentricity of the woody layers which one perceives when one cuts horizontally the trunk of a tree" (De la cause de l'excentricité des couches ligneuses qu'on apperçoit quand on coupe horisontalement le tronc d'un arbre).
3. ^ "A Curious Herbal". The British Library. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
4. ^ Duffin, C. J.; Gardner-Thorpe, C.; Moody, R. T. J. (2017). Geology and Medicine: Historical Connections. Geological Society of London. p. 60\. ISBN 9781786202833.
5. ^ Gates, Alexander E.; Ritchie, David (2006). Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Infobase Publishing. p. 38\. ISBN 9780816072705.
6. ^ Dasgupta, Samir; Şiriner, İsmail; De, Partha Sarathi (2010). Women's Encounter with Disaster. ismail siriner. p. 250\. ISBN 9788190884143.
7. ^ Euler, Leonhard (1737). "Variae observationes circa series infinitas" [Various observations concerning infinite series]. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Petropolitanae. 9: 160–188.160-188&rft.date=1737&rft.aulast=Euler&rft.aufirst=Leonhard&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1737+in+science" class="Z3988">
8. ^ "Longitude found: John Harrison". Royal Museums Greenwich | UNESCO World Heritage Site In London. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
9. ^ Ritchie, Stefka (2018). Samuel Johnson's Pragmatism and Imagination. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 76\. ISBN 9781527521094.
10. ^ "medal". British Museum. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
11. ^ "Luigi Galvani | Italian physician and physicist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 March 2019.

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