1710 in science
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The year 1710 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- The Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala is founded in Uppsala, Sweden, as the Collegium curiosorum ("College of the Curious").
[edit] Astronomy
- Edmond Halley, comparing his observations with Ptolemy's catalog, discovers the proper motion of some "fixed" stars.[1][2]
[edit] Physiology and medicine
- Alexis Littré, in his treatise Diverses observations anatomiques, is the first physician to suggest the possibility of performing a lumbar colostomy for an obstruction of the colon.
- Stephen Hales makes the first experimental measurement of the capacity of a mammalian heart.[3]
[edit] Technology
- Jakob Christof Le Blon invents a three-color printing process with red, blue, and yellow ink. Years later he adds black introducing the earliest four-color printing process.
[edit] Zoology
- René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur produces a paper on the use of spiders to produce silk.
[edit] Births
- April 15 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (died 1790)
- April 25 - James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (died 1776)
- May 18 - Johann II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1790)
- June 10 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (died 1768)
- July 21 - Paul Möhring, German physician and zoologist (died 1792)
- August 20 - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (died 1761)
- September 3 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (died 1784)
- date unknown - William Heberden, English physician (died 1801), who gave the first description of angina pectoris
[edit] Deaths
- February 25 - Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French explorer (born c. 1639)
- July 25 - Gottfried Kirch, German astronomer (born 1639)
- September 19 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (born 1644)
- Jean de Fontaney, French Jesuit mathematician and astronomer (born 1643)
[edit] References
- ^ http://messier.seds.org/xtra/Bios/halley.html
- ^ * O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "1710 in science", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Halley.html.
- ^ Forssmann, Werner. Nobel Lecture in Physiology or Medicine, 1956.