Editing 1774 in science (section)

==Biology==
* [[Italians|Italian]] [[physicist]] [[Abbé]] Bonaventura Corti publishes ''Osservazioni microscopiche sulla tremella e sulla circulazione del fluido in una pianta acquajuola'' in [[Lucca]], including his discovery of [[cyclosis]] in [[plant cell]]s.<ref>{{cite book|first=Arthur|last=Hughes|title=A History of Cytology|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcytolog00hugh|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Abelard-Schuman|year=1959|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcytolog00hugh/page/41 41]}}</ref>
* [[French people|French]] [[physician]] [[Antoine-Augustin Parmentier|Antoine Parmentier]] publishes ''Examen chymique des pommes de terres'' in [[Paris]], analysing the nutritional value of the [[potato]].