Editing 1737 in science (section)

==Geology==
* [[Francesco Serao]] is the first person to use the word [[lava]] in connection with extruded [[magma]] in a short account of the eruption of [[Mount Vesuvius]] which took place between May 14 and June 4.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Duffin |first1=C. J. |last2=Gardner-Thorpe |first2=C. |last3=Moody |first3=R. T. J. |title=Geology and Medicine: Historical Connections |date=2017 |publisher=Geological Society of London |isbn=9781786202833 |page=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCg5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60|language=en}}</ref>
* October 11 – An [[earthquake]] in [[Calcutta]], [[India]] is said to have caused 300,000 deaths; this is now [[Pre-1890 North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons#18th century|in question]]: it was probably a cyclone, with deaths estimated at 3,000.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gates |first1=Alexander E. |last2=Ritchie |first2=David |title=Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes |date=2006 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=9780816072705 |page=38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b1sXfJCiCHQC&pg=PA38|language=en}}</ref>
* October 16 – An [[Kamchatka earthquakes|earthquake]] with an estimated magnitude of 9.3 strikes offshore of the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dasgupta |first1=Samir |last2=Şiriner |first2=İsmail |last3=De |first3=Partha Sarathi |title=Women's Encounter with Disaster |date=2010 |publisher=ismail siriner |isbn=9788190884143 |page=250 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tBlzFssoovMC&pg=PA250|language=en}}</ref>