1750 in science
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The year 1750 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy is a disk-shaped system of stars with the solar system near the centre
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- March 16 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer (died 1848)
- July 5 - Aimé Argand, Swiss physicist and chemist (died 1803)
- Nicolas Francois Appert, French pioneer of food preservation by canning (died 1841)
- Aaron Arrowsmith, English cartographer (died 1823)
- Jean Nicolas Fortin, French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in 1800 (died 1831)
- Kurt Sprengel, German botanist (died 1816)
