1719 in science
The year 1719 in science and technology involved some significant events some of which are enumerated here.Botany
- Johann Jacob Dillenius publishes Catalogus plantarum sponte c. Gissam nascentium.
Mathematics
- Paul Halcke discovers the smallest Euler brick.
Births
- January 23 – John Landen, English mathematician
- August 4 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German geologist
- August 20 – Christian Mayer, German astronomer
- September 27 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician
- October 20 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician
- November 17 – Marie Marguerite Bihéron, French anatomist
Deaths
- January 12 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer
- March 13 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist and developer of porcelain manufacture
- June 24 – James Sutherland, Scottish botanist
- November 8 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician
