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The year '''1712 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* [[John Flamsteed]]'s ''Historia Coelestis'' is first published, against his will and without credit by [[Isaac Newton]] and [[Edmond Halley]] with the influence of [[John Arbuthnot]]. (A final version, approved by Flamsteed, is published posthumously in [[1725 in science|1725]].)

==Mathematics==
* [[Seki Takakazu]]'s discovery of what become known as [[Bernoulli number]]s is first published in his posthumous ''Katsuyo Sanpō''.
* [[Giacomo F. Maraldi]] experimentally obtains the [[angle]] in the [[rhombic dodecahedron]] shape, which becomes known as the Maraldi angle.

==Technology==
* The first known working [[Newcomen steam engine]] is built by [[Thomas Newcomen]] with [[John Calley (engineer)|John Calley]] to pump water out of mines in the [[Black Country]] of England.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=L. T. C. Rolt|first1=L. T. C.|last1=Rolt|first2=J. S.|last2=Allen|title=The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen|chapter=The First Newcomen Engines c. 1710-15|pages=44–57|edition=new|location=Hartington|publisher=Moorland|year=1977|isbn=0-903485-42-7}}</ref>

==Institutions==
* January 16 – A military engineering school is established in Moscow which is to become the [[A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy]].

==Births==
* March 8 – [[John Fothergill (physician)|John Fothergill]], English [[physician]] (died [[1780 in science|1780]])
* March 27 – [[Claude Bourgelat]], French [[veterinary surgeon]] (died [[1779 in science|1779]])
* June 15 – [[Andrew Gordon (Benedictine)|Andrew Gordon]], Scottish-born Benedictine monk, physicist and inventor (died [[1751 in science|1751]])
* ''undated''
** [[Angélique du Coudray]], French pioneer of modern [[midwifery]] (died [[1789 in science|1789]])
** [[Bartholomew Mosse]], [[Irish people|Irish]] surgeon and impresario (died [[1759 in science|1759]])

==Deaths==
* February 2 – [[Martin Lister]], English [[naturalist]] (born [[1639 in science|1639]])
* March 25 – [[Nehemiah Grew]], English naturalist (born [[1641 in science|1641]])
* August 29 – [[Gregory King]], English [[statistician]] (born [[1648 in science|1648]])
* September 14 – [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini|Giovanni Cassini]], Italian-born [[astronomer]] (born [[1625 in science|1625]])

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