1712 in science
The year 1712 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis is first published, against his will and without credit by Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley with the influence of John Arbuthnot.
Mathematics
- Seki Takakazu's discovery of what become known as Bernoulli numbers is first published in his posthumous Katsuyo Sanpō.
- Giacomo F. Maraldi experimentally obtains the angle in the rhombic dodecahedron shape, which becomes known as the Maraldi angle.
Technology
- The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley to pump water out of mines in the Black Country of England.
Institutions
- January 16 – A military engineering school is established in Moscow which is to become the A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy.
Births
- March 8 – John Fothergill, English physician
- March 27 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon
- June 15 – Andrew Gordon, Scottish-born Benedictine monk, physicist and inventor undated
- * Angélique du Coudray, French pioneer of modern midwifery
- * Bartholomew Mosse, Irish surgeon and impresario
Deaths
- February 2 – Martin Lister, English naturalist
- March 25 – Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist
- August 29 – Gregory King, English statistician
- September 14 – Giovanni Cassini, Italian-born astronomer