See also: 1756 in science, other events of 1757, 1758 in science and the list of years in science.
Astronomy Tobias Mayer presents accurate tables of the Moon's motion to the Board of Longitude Awards Copley Medal: Charles Cavendish Births August 9 - Thomas Telford, engineer (died 1834) George Vancouver, explorer (died 1798) Deaths October 17 - Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, French physicist (born 1683)
