Editing 1758 in science (section)

==Physics==
* [[Ruđer Bošković]] publishes his [[atomic theory]] in ''Philosophiæ naturalis theoria redacta ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium'' ("Theory of natural philosophy reduced to one law of the forces existing in nature").<ref>{{cite book|title=Cohesion: a scientific history of intermolecular forces|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HaKlJ5Zm51gC&dq=roger+boscovich&pg=PA49|first=J. S.|last=Rowlinson|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2002|isbn=0-521-81008-6|page=49}}</ref>
* [[John Dolland]] presents his "Account of some experiments concerning the different refrangibility of light" (''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]]'' (London)) describing the discovery of a means of constructing [[Doublet (lens)|doublet]] [[achromatic lens]]es by the combination of [[crown glass (optics)|crown]] and [[flint glass]]es, reducing [[chromatic aberration]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2LZZginzib4C&pg=PA140|title=Stargazer: the life and times of the telescope|first=Fred|last=Watson|location=London|publisher=Allen & Unwin|year=2007|pages=140–55|isbn=978-1-74175-383-7}}</ref>