1737 in science

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

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Astronomy

• 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]

Botany

• Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal, with her own colour illustrations, is published in London.[2]

Geology

• 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.[3]
• 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.[4]
• October 16 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.3 strikes offshore of the Kamchatka Peninsula.[5]

Mathematics

• Divergence of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes proved by Leonhard Euler.[6]

Technology

• John Harrison is given an award from the longitude prize to continue his work on development of a stable marine chronometer.[7]

Publications

• Venetian polymath Francesco Algarotti publishes Newtonianism for Ladies, or Dialogues on Light and Colours (Neutonianismo per le dame).[8]

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Belchier[9]

Births

• September 9 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (died 1798)[10]

Deaths

References

1. Bakich, Michael E. (2000). The Cambridge Planetary Handbook. Cambridge University Press. p. 103. ISBN 9780521632805.
2. "A Curious Herbal". The British Library. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
3. Duffin, C. J.; Gardner-Thorpe, C.; Moody, R. T. J. (2017). Geology and Medicine: Historical Connections. Geological Society of London. p. 60. ISBN 9781786202833.
4. Gates, Alexander E.; Ritchie, David (2006). Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Infobase Publishing. p. 38. ISBN 9780816072705.
5. Dasgupta, Samir; Şiriner, İsmail; De, Partha Sarathi (2010). Women's Encounter with Disaster. ismail siriner. p. 250. ISBN 9788190884143.
6. Euler, Leonhard (1737). "Variae observationes circa series infinitas" [Various observations concerning infinite series]. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Petropolitanae. 9: 160–188.
7. "Longitude found: John Harrison". Royal Museums Greenwich | UNESCO World Heritage Site In London. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
8. Ritchie, Stefka (2018). Samuel Johnson’s Pragmatism and Imagination. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 76. ISBN 9781527521094.
9. "medal". British Museum. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
10. "Luigi Galvani | Italian physician and physicist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 March 2019.