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1750 in science

The year 1750 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy is a disk-shaped system of stars with the solar system near the centre

March 16 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer (died 1848)
Nicolas Francois Appert, French pioneer of food preservation by canning (died 1841)
Aaron Arrowsmith, English cartographer (died 1823)
Jean Nicolas Fortin, French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in 1800 (died 1831)
Christian Sprengel, German botanist (died 1816)

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