1712 in science

The year 1712 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

* John Flamsteed's "Historia Coelestis Britannica" is first published, against his will and without credit by Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley, introducing Flamsteed designations. (A final version, approved by Flamsteed, was published posthumously in 1725.)

Mathematics

* Giacomo F. Maraldi experimentally obtains the angle in the rhombic dodecahedron shape, which is still called Maraldi angle.

Technology

* The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley to pump water out of mines.

Births

*March 8 - John Fothergill, English physician (died 1780)
*March 27 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (died 1779)

Deaths

* February 2 - Martin Lister, English naturalist (born c. 1638)
* March 25 - Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (born 1641)
* August 29 - Gregory King, English statistician (born 1648)
* September 14 - Giovanni Cassini, Italian astronomer (born 1625)
* "(c. 1712)" - Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician and inventor (born 1647)