1739 in science

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The year 1739 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Mathematics

Leonhard Euler solves the general homogeneous linear ordinary differential equation with constant coefficients.
Euler invents the tonnetz (German for "tone-network"), a conceptual lattice diagram that shows a two-dimensional tonal pitch space created by the network of relationships between musical pitches in just intonation.^[1]
Awards
- Copley Medal: Stephen Hales
Births
- December 14 - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, industrialist (d. 1817)
Deaths
- April 19 - Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician (b. 1682)
References
1. ^ Derbyshire, John (Spring 2007). Euler's Constancy. The Wilson Quarterly. Euler's publication: Tentamen novae theoriae musicae.