1763 in science - Definition and Overview

The year 1763 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

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

• July 11 - Peter Forsskål, Swedish naturalist (born 1732)