1750 in science

The year 1750 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

 * Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy is a disk-shaped system of stars with the Solar System near the centre.

Exploration

 * April 1 – Pehr Osbeck sets out on a primarily botanical expedition to China.

Physics

 * January 17 – John Canton reads a paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets.
 * Approx. date – Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli develop the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation.

Technology

 * November 18 – Westminster Bridge across the River Thames in London, designed by the Swiss-born engineer Charles Labelye, is officially opened.

Publications

 * Historia Plantarum, originally written by Conrad Gessner between 1555 and 1565.

Awards

 * Copley Medal: George Edwards

Births

 * March 16 – Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (died 1848)
 * July 2 – François Huber, Swiss naturalist (died 1831)
 * July 5 – Ami Argand, Genevan physicist and chemist (died 1803)
 * September 22 – Christian Konrad Sprengel, German botanist (died 1816)
 * October 25 – Marie Le Masson Le Golft, French naturalist (died 1826)
 * Aaron Arrowsmith, English cartographer (died 1823)
 * Jean Nicolas Fortin, French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in 1800 (died 1831)

Deaths

 * December 1 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born 1677)