1739_in_science
1739 in science
Overview of the events of 1739 in science
The year 1739 in science and technology involved some significant events.
- Plinian eruption of Mount Tarumae volcano in Japan.
- January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- Leonhard Euler solves the general homogeneous linear ordinary differential equation with constant coefficients.
- Euler invents the tonnetz (German for "tone-network"), a conceptual lattice diagram that shows a two-dimensional tonal pitch space created by the network of relationships between musical pitches in just intonation.[1][2]
- Émilie du Châtelet publishes Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu.
- June 2 – The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is founded in Stockholm by Linnaeus, Mårten Triewald and others.[4]
- November 14 – William Hewson, English surgeon, anatomist and physiologist, "father of haematology" (died 1774)
- December 14 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (died 1817)
- Israel Lyons, English mathematician and botanist (died 1775)
- April 19 – Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician (born 1682)
- April 27 – Nicolas Sarrabat, French scientist, astronomer and mathematician (born 1698)
- Euler, Leonhard. Tentamen novae theoriae musicae.
- Derbyshire, John (Spring 2007). "Euler's Constancy". The Wilson Quarterly. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
- "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.