The year 1750 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy is a disk-shaped system of stars with the Solar System near the centre.
Exploration April 1 – Pehr Osbeck sets out on a primarily botanical expedition to China.
Mathematics English mathematician Thomas Simpson formulates the Weber problem, and solves it geometrically in the triangle case.
Physics January 17 – John Canton reads a paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets. Approx. date – Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli develop the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation.
Technology November 18 – Westminster Bridge across the River Thames in London, designed by the Swiss-born engineer Charles Labelye, is officially opened.
Publications Historia Plantarum, originally written by Conrad Gessner between 1555 and 1565.
Awards Copley Medal: George Edwards
Births March 16 – Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (died 1848) July 2 – François Huber, Swiss naturalist (died 1831) July 5 – Ami Argand, Genevan physicist and chemist (died 1803) September 22 – Christian Konrad Sprengel, German botanist (died 1816) October 25 – Marie Le Masson Le Golft, French naturalist (died 1826) Aaron Arrowsmith, English cartographer (died 1823) Jean Nicolas Fortin, French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in 1800 (died 1831)
Deaths December 1 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born 1677)
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