1735 in science

The year 1735 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

 * July 11 - Pluto (not known at this time) enters a fourteen-year period inside the orbit of Neptune, which will not recur until 1979.



Biology

 * Carl Linnaeus publishes his Systema Naturae.

Chemistry

 * Cobalt is discovered and isolated by Georg Brandt. This is the first metal discovered since ancient times.

Earth sciences

 * May – French Geodesic Mission (including Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pierre Bouguer, Louis Godin, Jorge Juan, Antonio de Ulloa, Joseph de Jussieu and Jean Godin) sets out for Ecuador.

Mathematics

 * Leonhard Euler solves the Basel problem, first posed by Pietro Mengoli in 1644, and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem.

Meteorology

 * May 22 – George Hadley publishes the first explanation of the trade winds.

Physiology and medicine

 * December 6 – The second successful appendectomy is performed by naturalised British surgeon Claudius Aymand at St George's Hospital in London (the first was in 1731).

Births

 * April 21 – Ivan Petrovich Kulibin, Russian inventor (died 1818)
 * May 17 (bapt.) – John Brown, Scottish physician (died 1788)
 * August 7 – Claudine Picardet, French, chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific translator (died 1820)
 * September 6 – John Joseph Merlin, Liégeois-born inventor (died 1803)
 * October 6 – Jesse Ramsden, English scientific instrument maker (died 1800)
 * December 4 – Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Viennese herpetologist (died 1805)

Deaths

 * February 27 – Dr John Arbuthnot, British polymath (born 1667)
 * September 27 – Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (born 1705)