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This is a list of significant events that occurred in the year 1718 in science.
Astronomy
- Edmond Halley discovers the proper motion of stars.[1]
Chemistry
- displacement reactions) to the French Academy of Sciences.
Mathematics
- Abraham de Moivre publishes The Doctrine of Chances: a method of calculating the probabilities of events in play in English, which goes through several editions.[2][3]
Medicine
- The Charitable Infirmary, Dublin, is founded by six surgeons in Ireland, the first public voluntary hospital in the British Isles.[4][5]
Technology
- May 15 –
Births
- May 16 – Italian mathematician (died 1799)
- May 23 – anatomist (died 1783)
- August 17 – Francis Willis, English physician specialising in mental disorders (died 1807)
- Lithuanianphysician (died after 1763)
Deaths
- March 11 – botanist (born 1638)
- April – naturalist and apothecary (born c. 1665)
- December 9 – cartographer and encyclopedist (born 1650)
- December 11 – Pierre Dionis, French surgeon and anatomist (born 1643)[7]
References
- ISBN 978-1-877069-22-2.
- ^ The Doctrine of Chances
- ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Widdess, J. D. H. (1968). The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, Dublin, 1718–1968. Dublin.
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- ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- BnF 12462161b