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The year '''1750 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

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==Astronomy==
* [[Thomas Wright (astronomer)|Thomas Wright]] suggests that the [[Milky Way]] [[Galaxy]] is a disk-shaped system of [[star]]s with the [[Solar System]] near the centre.

==Exploration==
* April 1 – [[Pehr Osbeck]] sets out on a primarily botanical expedition to [[China]].

==Physics==
* January 17 – [[John Canton]] reads a paper before the [[Royal Society]] on a method of making artificial [[magnet]]s.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/313 313–314]}}</ref>
* ''Approx. date'' – [[Leonhard Euler]] and [[Daniel Bernoulli]] develop the [[Euler–Bernoulli beam equation]].

==Technology==
* November 18 – [[Westminster Bridge]] across the [[River Thames]] in [[London]], designed by the [[Switzerland|Swiss]]-born engineer [[Charles Labelye]], is officially opened.<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The London Encyclopaedia]]|first=Ben|last=Weinreb|authorlink1 = Ben Weinreb|author2=Hibbert, Christopher|authorlink2 = Christopher Hibbert|publisher=Macmillan|year=1995|isbn=0-333-57688-8|page=976}}</ref>

==Publications==
* ''[[Historia Plantarum (Gessner)|Historia Plantarum]]'', originally written by [[Conrad Gessner]] between 1555 and 1565.

==Awards==
* [[Copley Medal]]: [[George Edwards (naturalist)|George Edwards]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=21 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

==Births==
* March 16 – [[Caroline Herschel]], German-born English astronomer (died [[1848 in science|1848]])
* July 2 – [[François Huber]], Swiss naturalist (died [[1831 in science|1831]])
* July 5 – [[Ami Argand]], [[Republic of Geneva|Genevan]] physicist and chemist (died [[1803 in science|1803]])
* September 22 – [[Christian Konrad Sprengel]], German botanist (died [[1816 in science|1816]])
* October 25 – [[Marie Le Masson Le Golft]], French naturalist (died [[1826 in science|1826]]) 
* [[Aaron Arrowsmith]], English cartographer (died [[1823 in science|1823]])
* [[Jean Nicolas Fortin]], French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in [[1800 in science|1800]] (died [[1831 in science|1831]])

==Deaths==
* December 1 – [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]], German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born [[1677 in science|1677]])

==References==
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