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The year 1741 in science and technology involved some significant events. ==Astronomy== * August 29 – Pluto (not known at the time) reached perihelion (closest approach to the Sun). * December 11 – a "Fire-ball" and explosion heard over southern England, about 11 a.m. "a countryman ... saw a flash of Lightening Before he heard the Noise ... The sound was double ... a Ball of Fire ... took its Course to the East ... over Westminster ... it divided into Two Heads () left a Train of Smoke ... which continued ascending for 20 minutes".〔''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society''.〕 The description is reminiscent of the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013. * Anders Celsius establishes the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. * Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin publishes his first paper on the moons of Jupiter, in the ''Acta'' of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala. * Edmund Weaver publishes ''The British Telescope: Being an Ephemeris of the Coelestial Motions''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1741 in science」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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