1754 in science

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The year 1754 in science and technology involved some significant events.

## Astronomy

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* Immanuel Kant, German philosopher, postulates retardation of Earth's orbit.

## Chemistry

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* Joseph Black, Scottish chemist, discovers carbonic acid gas.

## Earth sciences

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* Albert Brahms, Frisian Dijkgraaf, begins publication of Anfangsgründe der Deich und Wasser-Baukunst ("Principles of Dike and Aquatic Engineering") advocating scientific recording of tides.[1]

## Mathematics

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* Joshua Kirby publishes the pamphlet Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy both in Theory and Practice containing William Hogarth's Satire on False Perspective.
* Lagrange begins to work on the problem of tautochrone.

## Physics

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* Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist in the fields of applied electricity, develops a weather-machine. The same year, an electrical conductor devised by him is installed at the Vienna General Hospital.

## Awards

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* Copley Medal: William Lewis[2]

## Births

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* March 4 – Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician (died 1846)
* March 15 – Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist (died 1842)
* March 23 – Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (died 1802)
* May 6 – Thomas Coke, English agriculturalist and geneticist (died 1842)
* June 4 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, German astronomer (died 1832)
* August 21 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor (died 1839)
* September 26 – Joseph Proust, French chemist (died 1826)

## Deaths

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* February 5 – Nicolaas Kruik (Cruquius), Dutch cartographer and meteorologist (born 1678)
* February 16 – Richard Mead, English physician (born 1673)
* April 9 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher, mathematician and scientist (born 1679)
* April 15 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (born 1676)
* November 27 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (born 1667)

## References

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1. ^ *Niemeyer, Hanz D.; Eiben, Hartmut; Rohde, Hans (1996), "History and heritage of German coastal entineering", in Kraus, Nicholas C. (ed.), A Collection of Papers on the History of Coastal Engineering in Countries Hosting the International Coastal Engineering Conference 1950-1996 (PDF), American Society of Civil Engineers, archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2011, "far ahead of his contemporaries."
2. ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

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