1763 in science
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The year 1763 CE in science and technology

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

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