1724 in science

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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.

Technology

• French toast is developed by tavern owner Joseph French, at a roadside tavern near Albany, New York.

Institutions

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

Births

• June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (died 1792)
• July 10 – Eva Ekeblad, first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (died 1786)
• September 27 – Anton Friedrich Busching, German geographer (died 1793)

Deaths

• Abbé Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (born 1647)