Editing 1745 in science (section)

==Physics==
* The [[Leyden jar]], a device for storing [[electric charge]], is invented by [[Pieter van Musschenbroek]]. It Is the first [[capacitor]].
* [[Andrew Gordon (Benedictine)|Andrew Gordon]] describes the "whirl", the first electrostatic reaction motor, and "electric chimes", the first instance of the application of what comes to be called electric convection, in his ''Versuch einer Erklarung der Electricitat''.<ref>{{cite book|first=Tom|last=McInally|title=The Sixth Scottish University: The Scots Colleges Abroad: 1575 to 1799|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004214262|year=2011|page=115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yv4uBMC64tsC&q=electric+motor}}</ref>
* [[Ruđer Bošković]] publishes ''De Viribus Vivis'' in which he tries to find a middle way between [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s gravitational theory and [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]'s [[monadology]], developing a concept of "impenetrability" as a property of hard bodies which explains their behavior in terms of [[force]] rather than [[matter]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Conflict between Atomism and Conservation Theory 1644–1860|first=Wilson L.|last=Scott|location=London|publisher=Macdonald|year=1970|isbn=0-356-02706-6}}</ref>