See also: 1741 in science, other events of 1742, 1743 in science and the list of years in science.
Awards Copley Medal: Christopher Middleton Births December 9 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (died 1786) Deaths January 14 - Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (born 1656
