See also: 1762 in science, other events of 1763, 1764 in science and the list of years in science.
Astronomy Publication of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille's Coelum australe stelliferum, cataloguing all his data from the southern hemisphere and including about 10,000 stars and a number of brighter star clusters and nebulae Awards Copley Medal: Not awarded Births May 16 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (died 1829) December 25 - Claude Chappe, engineer (died 1805) John Brinkley, astronomer (died 1835) William Maclure, geologist (died 1840) Deaths
