1736 in science
# 1736 in science

The year 1736 in science and technology involved some significant events.

## Botany

* Charles Marie de La Condamine, with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of rubber, in Ecuador.

## Earth sciences

* June 19 – French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in the Torne Valley of Finland.

## Mathematics

* June 8 – Leonhard Euler writes to James Stirling describing the Euler–Maclaurin formula, providing a connection between integrals and calculus.
* Euler produces the first published proof of Fermat's "little theorem".
* Sir Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions (1671), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published (posthumously) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations against the criticism of George Berkeley (anonymously).

## Medicine

* Early 1736 – The “Publick Workhouse and House of Correction” that is to become Bellevue Hospital in New York City is ready for occupancy.
* c. October – Winchester County Hospital, established by Prebendary Alured Clarke, the first voluntary general hospital in the English provinces.

## Awards

* Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers

## Births

* January 19 – James Watt, Scottish mechanical engineer (died 1819)
* January 25 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, Piedmont-born mathematician (died 1813)
* June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (died 1806)
* July 12 – Louis Lépecq de La Clôture, French epidemiologist (died 1804)
* August 19 – Erland Samuel Bring, Swedish mathematician (died 1798)
* November 3 – Christiaan Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer (died 1805)
* John Arnold, Cornish-born watchmaker (died 1799)
* Honoré Blanc, French gunsmith (died 1801)

## Deaths

* September 16 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German-born Dutch physicist and engineer (born 1686)
* October 13 – Georges Mareschal, French surgeon (born 1658)
