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The year '''1754 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* [[Immanuel Kant]], [[German people|German]] [[philosopher]], postulates retardation of [[Earth's orbit]].

==Chemistry==
* [[Joseph Black]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] chemist, discovers [[carbonic acid gas]].

==Earth sciences==
* [[Albert Brahms]], [[Frisia]]n [[Dijkgraaf (official)|Dijkgraaf]], begins publication of ''Anfangsgründe der Deich und Wasser-Baukunst'' ("Principles of Dike and Aquatic Engineering") advocating scientific recording of [[tide]]s.<ref>*{{citation|contribution=History and heritage of German coastal entineering |first1=Hanz D. |last1=Niemeyer |first2=Hartmut |last2=Eiben |first3=Hans |last3=Rohde |title=A Collection of Papers on the History of Coastal Engineering in Countries Hosting the International Coastal Engineering Conference 1950-1996 |year=1996 |editor-first=Nicholas C. |editor-last=Kraus |publisher=[[American Society of Civil Engineers]] |url=http://coast.gkss.de/staff/storch/pdf/Niemeyer-heritage.coast.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206130523/http://coast.gkss.de/staff/storch/pdf/Niemeyer-heritage.coast.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 6, 2011 |quote=far ahead of his contemporaries. }}</ref>

==Mathematics==
* [[Joshua Kirby (artist)|Joshua Kirby]] publishes the pamphlet ''Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy both in Theory and Practice'' containing [[William Hogarth]]'s ''[[Satire on False Perspective]]''.
* [[Joseph Louis Lagrange|Lagrange]] begins to work on the problem of [[tautochrone]].

==Physics==
* [[Václav Prokop Diviš]], [[Czech people|Czech]] theologian and natural scientist in the fields of applied electricity, develops a weather-machine. The same year, an electrical conductor devised by him is installed at the [[Vienna General Hospital]].

==Awards==
* [[Copley Medal]]: [[William Lewis (scientist)|William Lewis]]<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 4 – [[Benjamin Waterhouse]], [[Americans|American]] [[physician]] (died [[1846 in science|1846]])
* March 15 – [[Archibald Menzies]], [[Scotland|Scottish]] surgeon and [[botanist]] (died [[1842 in science|1842]])
* March 23 – [[Jurij Vega]], [[Slovenes|Slovene]] mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (died [[1802 in science|1802]])
* May 6 – [[Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (seventh creation)|Thomas Coke]], [[English people|English]] [[agriculturalist]] and [[geneticist]] (died 1842)
* June 4 – [[Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach]], [[Germany|German]] [[astronomer]] (died [[1832 in science|1832]])
* August 21 – [[William Murdoch]], Scottish engineer and [[inventor]] (died [[1839 in science|1839]])
* September 26 – [[Joseph Proust]], [[France|French]] [[chemist]] (died [[1826 in science|1826]])

==Deaths==
* February 5 – [[Nicolaas Kruik]] (Cruquius), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[cartographer]] and [[meteorologist]] (born [[1678 in science|1678]])
* February 16 – [[Richard Mead]], English physician (born [[1673 in science|1673]])
* April 9 – [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]], [[German people|German]] [[philosopher]], [[mathematician]] and [[scientist]] (born [[1679 in science|1679]])
* April 15 – [[Jacopo Riccati]], [[Italian people|Italian]] mathematician (born [[1676 in science|1676]])
* November 27 – [[Abraham de Moivre]], [[French people|French]] mathematician (born [[1667 in science|1667]])

==References==
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