1719 in science
The year 1719 in science and technology involved some significant events some of which are enumerated here.
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Botany
- Johann Jacob Dillenius publishes Catalogus plantarum sponte c. Gissam nascentium.
Mathematics
- Paul Halcke discovers the smallest Euler brick.
Births
- January 23 – John Landen, English mathematician (died 1790)
- August 4 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German geologist (died 1767)
- August 20 – Christian Mayer, German astronomer (died 1783)
- September 27 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (died 1800)
- October 20 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (died 1772)
- November 17 – Marie Marguerite Bihéron, French anatomist (died 1795)
Deaths
- January 12 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer (born 1646)
- March 13 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist and developer of porcelain manufacture (born 1682)
- June 24 – James Sutherland, Scottish botanist (born c.1638/9)
- November 8 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (born 1652)
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