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The year '''1737 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* May 28 – The [[planet]] [[Venus]] passes in front of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]. The event is witnessed during the evening by amateur [[astronomer]] [[John Bevis]] at the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] in [[England]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bakich |first1=Michael E. |title=The Cambridge Planetary Handbook |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521632805 |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PE99nOKjbXAC&pg=PA103|language=en}}</ref>

==Botany==
* February 27 – French scientists [[Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau]] and [[Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon]] publish the first study correlating past weather conditions with an examination of [[Dendrochronology#Growth rings|tree rings]].<ref>"On the cause of the eccentricity of the woody layers which one perceives when one cuts horizontally the trunk of a tree" (''De la cause de l'excentricité des couches ligneuses qu'on apperçoit quand on coupe horisontalement le tronc d'un arbre'').</ref>
* [[Elizabeth Blackwell (illustrator)|Elizabeth Blackwell]]'s ''A Curious Herbal'', with her own colour illustrations, is published in London.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Curious Herbal |url=https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/a-curious-herbal-dandelion |website=The British Library |accessdate=21 March 2019}}</ref>
* [[Johannes Burman]]'s ''Thesaurus zeylanicus'', a [[Flora (publication)|flora]] of [[Ceylon]], is published in Amsterdam.

==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>

==Mathematics==
* [[Divergence of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes]] proved by [[Leonhard Euler]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Leonhard|last=Euler|title=Variae observationes circa series infinitas|trans-title=Various observations concerning infinite series|journal=Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Petropolitanae|volume=9|year=1737|pages=160–188}}</ref>

==Technology==
* [[John Harrison]] is given an award from the [[longitude prize]] to continue his work on development of a stable [[marine chronometer]] in England.<ref>{{cite web |title=Longitude found: John Harrison |url=https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/longitude-found-john-harrison |website=Royal Museums Greenwich {{!}} UNESCO World Heritage Site In London |accessdate=21 March 2019 |language=en |date=7 October 2015}}</ref>

==Publications==
* Venetian polymath [[Francesco Algarotti]] publishes ''Newtonianism for Ladies, or Dialogues on Light and Colours'' (''Neutonianismo per le dame'').<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ritchie |first1=Stefka |title=Samuel Johnson's Pragmatism and Imagination |date=2018 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=9781527521094 |page=76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WzJ3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|language=en}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Copley Medal]]: [[John Belchier]]<ref>{{cite web |title=medal |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=950403&partId=1&searchText=copley+medal&page=1 |website=British Museum |accessdate=21 March 2019}}</ref>

==Births==
* January 4 – [[Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau]], [[French people|French]] [[chemist]] and politician (died [[1816 in science|1816]])
* August 14 – [[Charles Hutton]], [[English people|English]] [[mathematician]] (died [[1823 in science|1823]])
* September 9 – [[Luigi Galvani]], [[Italians|Italian]] [[physicist]] (died [[1798 in science|1798]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Luigi Galvani {{!}} Italian physician and physicist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Luigi-Galvani |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=21 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==Deaths==
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==References==
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