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Thu Dec 21 2000 at 2:46:41
Born in 1734:
American
frontiersman
Daniel Boone
.
English
mathematician
Edward Waring
.
American merchant
Robert Morris
, in
Liverpool
.
English painter
George Romney
.
Austrian physician
Franz Anton Mesmer
, developer of the theory of
animal magnetism
.
English painter
Joseph Wright
.
Died in 1734:
German chemist
Georg Stahl
, inventor of
phlogiston
theory and
vitalism
theory.
English dramatist
John Dennis
.
French composer
Nicolas Bernier
.
Events of 1734:
The
War of the Polish Successsion
rages on.
(April 1) Austria declares war against France.
(May 25) Spain, under
infante
Don Carlos
, conquers
Naples
and
Sicily
and is crowned
King of the Two Sicilies
.
France overruns
Lorraine
but Austrian Prince
Eugene
keeps the Franch army from making progress in
Germany
.
The French are unable to relieve the Russian siege of
Gdansk
, which falls in (June).
Stanislaus Leszczynski
, the candidate for the Polish throne favored by the Polish, flees to
Prussia
.
(November) Some Polish nobles form a
confederation
to drive out the Russians and Austrians but this is ineffectual.
Bishop
George Berkeley
publishes
The Analyst
attacking mathematical techniques of the time, especially
infinitesimal calculus
.
Emmanuel Swedenborg
publishes his own
Principia
, outlining his theory of how the Earth formed. This is where the
nebular hypothesis
has its origin.
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