1736 in science

The year 1736 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Botany

 * Charles Marie de La Condamine, with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of rubber, in Ecuador.

Earth sciences

 * June 19 – French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in the Torne Valley of Finland.

Mathematics

 * June 8 – Leonhard Euler writes to James Stirling describing the Euler–Maclaurin formula, providing a connection between integrals and calculus.
 * Euler produces the first published proof of Fermat's "little theorem".
 * Sir Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions (1671), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published (posthumously) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations against the criticism of George Berkeley (anonymously).

Medicine

 * Early 1736 – The “Publick Workhouse and House of Correction” that is to become Bellevue Hospital in New York City is ready for occupancy.
 * c. October – Winchester County Hospital, established by Prebendary Alured Clarke, the first voluntary general hospital in the English provinces.

Awards

 * Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers

Births

 * January 19 – James Watt, Scottish mechanical engineer (died 1819)
 * January 25 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, Piedmont-born mathematician (died 1813)
 * June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (died 1806)
 * July 12 – Louis Lépecq de La Clôture, French epidemiologist (died 1804)
 * August 19 – Erland Samuel Bring, Swedish mathematician (died 1798)
 * November 3 – Christiaan Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer (died 1805)
 * John Arnold, Cornish-born watchmaker (died 1799)
 * Honoré Blanc, French gunsmith (died 1801)

Deaths

 * September 16 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German-born Dutch physicist and engineer (born 1686)
 * October 13 – Georges Mareschal, French surgeon (born 1658)