Editing 1763 in science (section)

==Astronomy==
* Publication posthumously of [[Nicolas Louis de Lacaille]]'s ''Coelum australe stelliferum'', cataloguing all his data from the southern hemisphere and including about 10,000 stars and a number of brighter star clusters and [[nebula]]e.
* Publication of [[Edward Stone (clergyman)|Edward Stone]]'s ''The whole doctrine of parallaxes explained and illustrated by an arithmetical and geometrical construction of the transit of Venus over the sun, June 6th, 1761. Enriched with a new and general method of determining the places where any transit of this planet, and especially that which will be June 3d, 1769, may be best observed''.