title: 1736 in science
text: # 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)
  