1724 in science

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The year 1724 in science and technology involved some significant events.

## Astronomy[edit]

* May 22 – Giacomo F. Maraldi concludes, from his observations during an eclipse, that the corona is part of the Sun.[1]

## Mathematics[edit]

* 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[edit]

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

## Institutions[edit]

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

## Births[edit]

* 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[edit]

* October 18 - Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (born 1647)[5]

## References[edit]

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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