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{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> {{Year nav topic5|1762|science}} {{Science year nav|1762}} The year '''1762 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events. ==Biology== * [[Charles Bonnet]]'s ''Considerations sur les corps organisées'' is published in [[Amsterdam]], synthesising current knowledge of [[cell biology]] and presenting his theory of [[palingenesis]], intended to refute the theory of [[Epigenesis (biology)|epigenesis]]. * Courses begin at the first [[veterinary school]], established by [[Claude Bourgelat]] in [[Lyon]]. ==Mathematics== * September – [[The Equitable Life Assurance Society|Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships]] is established in [[London]], pioneering [[mutual insurance]] using a method of [[actuarial science]] devised by mathematician [[James Dodson (mathematician)|James Dodson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.equitable.co.uk/content/content_7.htm|title=Today & History|publisher=Equitable Life|date=2009-06-26|accessdate=2010-10-20|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629202114/http://www.equitable.co.uk/content/content_7.htm|archivedate=2009-06-29}}</ref> * [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] discovers the [[divergence theorem]].<ref>In his 1762 paper on sound, Lagrange treats a special case of the theorem: Lagrange (1762) "Nouvelles recherches sur la nature et la propagation du son" (New researches on the nature and propagation of sound), ''Miscellanea Taurinensia'' (also known as: ''Mélanges de Turin'' ), '''2''': 11-172. This article is reprinted as: [https://books.google.com/books?id=3TA4DeQw1NoC&pg=PA151 "Nouvelles recherches sur la nature et la propagation du son"] in: Serret, J. A., ed., ''Oeuvres de Lagrange'' (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1867), '''1''': 151-316; [https://books.google.com/books?id=3TA4DeQw1NoC&pg=PA263 on pp. 263-265], Lagrange transforms triple integrals into double integrals using integration by parts.</ref> ==Pharmacology== * [[Antoine Baumé]] publishes his textbook ''Éléments de pharmacie théorique et pratique'' in Paris. ==Physics== * [[Joseph Black]] first makes known his discoveries on [[latent heat]], in [[Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=R. G. W.|last=Anderson|title=Black, Joseph (1728–1799)|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2495|accessdate=2016-02-01|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/2495}} </ref> ==Awards== * [[Copley Medal]]: Not awarded<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== * April 10 – [[Giovanni Aldini]], [[Italians|Italian]] [[physicist]] (died [[1834 in science|1834]]) * November 20 – [[Pierre André Latreille]], [[French people|French]] [[zoologist]] (died [[1833 in science|1833]]) ==Deaths== * February 20 – [[Tobias Mayer]], [[Germans|German]] [[astronomer]] (born [[1723 in science|1723]]) * March 21 – [[Nicolas Louis de Lacaille]], French [[astronomer]] (born [[1713 in science|1713]]) * June 13 – [[Dorothea Erxleben]], [[German people|German]] physician (born [[1715 in science|1715]]) * July 10 – [[Jan Frederik Gronovius]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[botanist]] (born [[1690 in science|1690]]) * July 13 – [[James Bradley]], [[English people|English]] [[Astronomer Royal]] (born [[1693 in science|1693]]) * July 30 – [[William Braikenridge]], English clergyman and [[geometer]] (born [[1700 in science|1700]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Braikenridge.html|title=William Braikenridge|last1=O'Connor|first1=John J.|first2=Edmund F.|last2=Robertson|authorlink2=Edmund F. Robertson|work=[[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive|MacTutor History of Mathematics]]|accessdate=2012-01-24|date=November 1999|archive-date=2019-08-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827014808/http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Braikenridge.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1762 in science| ]] [[Category:18th century in science]] [[Category:1760s in science]]
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