1758 in science

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The year 1758 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Physics 3 Zoology 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• Comet Halley reappears as predicted by Edmond Halley in 1705.

[edit] Physics

• Rudjer Boscovich publishes his atomic theory in Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium (Theory of natural philosophy reduced to one law of the forces existing in nature)

[edit] Zoology

• Carolus Linnaeus applies his binomial system to animal classification

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: John Dollond

[edit] Births

• Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, astronomer (died 1840)

[edit] Deaths