1750 in science

1750 in science
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List of years in science (Table)
… 1740 • 1741 • 1742 • 1743 • 1744 • 1745 • 1746 • 1747 • 1748 • 1749 – 1750 – 1751 • 1752 • 1753 • 1754 • 1755 • 1756 • 1757 • 1758 • 1759 • 1760 …
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… 1747 • 1748 • 1749 – 1750 – 1751 • 1752 • 1753 … … 1720s • 1730s • 1740s – 1750s – 1760s • 1770s • 1780s … … 17th century – 18th century – 19th century …
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The year 1750 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1 Astronomy
2 Awards
3 Births
4 Deaths

Astronomy

Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy is a disk-shaped system of stars with the solar system near the centre

Awards

Copley Medal: George Edwards

Births

March 16 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer (died 1848)
July 5 - Aimé Argand, Swiss physicist and chemist (died 1803)
Nicolas Francois Appert, French pioneer of food preservation by canning (died 1841)
Aaron Arrowsmith, English cartographer (died 1823)
Jean Nicolas Fortin, French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in 1800 (died 1831)
Kurt Sprengel, German botanist (died 1816)

Deaths

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