1750 in science
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The year 1750 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
See also: 1749 in science, other events of 1750, 1751 in science and the list of years in science.
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Astronomy
- Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy is a disk-shaped system of stars with the solar system near the centre
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Awards
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Births
- 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 Konrad Sprengel, German botanist (died 1816)
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Deaths
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