1761 жылғы ғылым мен технология жетістіктері

The year 1761 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Louis Gérard publishes Flora Gallo Provincialis, the first flora arranged according to natural classification.

Johan Gottschalk Wallerius publishes his pioneering work in agricultural chemistry, Agriculturae fundamenta chemica (Åkerbrukets chemiska grunder).

Johann Heinrich Lambert gives a proof that π is irrational.

Leopold Auenbrugger publishes Novum ex Percussione Thoracis Humani Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi in Vienna, for the first time advocating percussion of the chest as a diagnostic measure. Giovanni Battista Morgagni publishes De Sedibus et causis morborum per anatomem indagatis ("Of the seats and causes of diseases investigated through anatomy", published in Venice), a pioneering work of anatomical pathology. Samuel Auguste Tissot publishes Avis au peuple sur sa santé, a popular text of the century.

August 4 – Claude Bourgelat founds the first veterinary school, in Lyon; courses begin in 1762.

Opening of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory in England.

January 17 – James Hall (died 1832), Scottish geologist and physicist. January 19 – Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (died 1807), French naturalist and physician. February 1 – Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (died 1836), South African born Pomeranian/Dutch mycologist. February 4 – Blasius Merrem (died 1824), German zoologist. June 7 – John Rennie (died 1821), Scottish born civil engineer. October 27 – Matthew Baillie (died 1823), Scottish born pathologist. November 30 – Smithson Tennant (died 1815), English chemist. December 21 – Jean Louis Pons (died 1831), French astronomer. December 25 – William Gregor (died 1817), Cornish mineralogist.

January 4 – Stephen Hales (born 1677), English physiologist and clergyman. March 21 – Pierre Fauchard (born 1679), French physician and "father of modern dentistry". April 7 – Thomas Bayes (born c. 1702), English mathematician. May 14 – Thomas Simpson (born 1710), British mathematician. November – Giovanni Poleni (born c. 1683), Italian mathematician and physicist. November 30 – John Dollond (born 1706), English optician.