1718 in science
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The year 1718 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Chemistry
- Étienne François Geoffroy presents the first ever table of chemical affinity (based on 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.[1][2]
Medicine
- The Charitable Infirmary, Dublin, is founded by six surgeons in Ireland, the first public voluntary hospital in the British Isles.[3][4]
Technology
- May 15 – James Puckle patents the Puckle Gun, in England.[5]
Births
- May 16 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (died 1799)
- May 23 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (died 1783)
- Salomée Halpir (née Rusiecki), Lithuanian physician (died after 1763)
Deaths
- March 11 – Guy-Crescent Fagon, French physician and botanist (born 1638)
- April – James Petiver, English naturalist and apothecary (born c. 1665)
- December 9 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopedist (born 1650)
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