1734 in science
The year 1734 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Mathematics
- George Berkeley publishes The Analyst, an empiricist critique of the foundations of infinitesimal calculus, influential in the development of mathematics.
- Leonhard Euler introduces the integrating factor technique for solving first-order ordinary differential equations.
Technology
- James Short constructs a Gregorian reflecting telescope with an aperture of.
Zoology
- René Antoine Ferchault [de Réaumur] begins publication of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes in Amsterdam.
Awards
Births
- January 23 – Wolfgang von Kempelen, Hungarian inventor
- April 18 – Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedish botanist
- May 23 – Franz Mesmer, German physician
- September 3 – Joseph Wright, English painter of scientific subjects
Deaths
- February 1 – John [Floyer (physician)|John Floyer], English physician
- April 25 – Johann Konrad Dippel, German theologian, alchemist and physician