The year 1724 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Events

January 28 - The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences is founded by Peter I of Russia.[1]

Mathematics

Daniel Bernoulli expresses the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in terms of the golden ratio.[2]

Medicine

Herman Boerhaave describes Boerhaave syndrome, a fatal tearing of the esophagus.[3]

Technology

French toast is developed by tavern owner Joseph French, at a roadside tavern near Albany, New York.

Births

June 8 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1792)
July 10 - Eva Ekeblad, first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (d. 1786)
September 27 - Anton Friedrich Busching, German geographer (d. 1793)

Deaths

Abbé Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (b. 1647)

References

^ General information about the Academy (in Russian)
^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
^ Boerhaave, H. (1724). Atrocis, nec descripti prius, morbii historia: secundum medicae artis leges conscripta. Leiden: Lugduni Batavorum Boutesteniana.