1724 in science

The year 1724 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

 * May 22 – Giacomo F. Maraldi concludes, from his observations during an eclipse, that the corona is part of the Sun.

Mathematics

 * Daniel Bernoulli expresses the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in terms of the golden ratio.
 * Isaac Watts publishes Logic, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences.

Medicine

 * Herman Boerhaave describes Boerhaave syndrome, a fatal tearing of the esophagus.

Institutions

 * January 28 – The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences is founded by Peter I of Russia.

Births

 * March 27 – Jane Colden, American botanist (died 1766)
 * June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (died 1792)
 * July 10 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish agronomist, first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (died 1786)
 * September 27 – Anton Friedrich Busching, German geographer (died 1793)
 * December 25 – John Michell, English scientist (died 1793)
 * Date unknown – Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, French mathematician (died 1767)

Deaths

 * October 18 - Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (born 1647)