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 Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers
Births January 23 – Wolfgang von Kempelen, Hungarian inventor (died 1804) April 18 – Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedish botanist (died 1819) May 23 – Franz Mesmer, German physician (died 1815) September 3 – Joseph Wright, English painter of scientific subjects (died 1797)
Deaths February 1 – John Floyer, English physician (born 1649) April 25 – Johann Konrad Dippel, German theologian, alchemist and physician (born 1673)
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