1724 in science

Astronomy

• May 22 – Giacomo F. Maraldi concludes, from his observations during an eclipse, that the corona is part of the Sun.

  Mathematics

• Daniel Bernoulli expresses the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in terms of the golden ratio.
• Isaac Watts publishes Logic, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences.

  Medicine

• Herman Boerhaave describes Boerhaave syndrome, a fatal tearing of the esophagus.

  Institutions

• January 28 – The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences is founded by Peter I of Russia.

  Births

• March 27 - Jane Colden, American botanist
• June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer
• July 10 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish agronomist, first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science
• September 27 – Anton Friedrich Busching, German geographer
• December 25 – John Michell, English scientist
• Date unknown - Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, French mathematician

  Deaths

• October 18 - Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor