1768 in science
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The year 1768 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Biology
- Caspar Friedrich Wolff begins publication of "De Formatione Intestinarum" in the Mémoires of The Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences (St. Petersburg), a significant work in the science of embryology.[1]
- Lazzaro Spallanzani challenges the spontaneous generation of cellular life.
[edit] Botany
- Bougainvillea is first classified in Brazil by Philibert Commerçon, the botanist accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville's French Navy voyage of circumnavigation.[2]
- Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau's Traité des arbres fruitiers is published in Paris.
[edit] Chemistry
- March 17 - William Cookworthy is granted a patent for the manufacture of porcelain from kaolinite in England,[3]
[edit] Exploration
- Peter Simon Pallas begins a scientific expedition through the Russian Empire.
[edit] Mathematics
- Leonhard Euler uses closed curves (which become known as Euler diagrams) to illustrate syllogistic reasoning.[4][5]
[edit] Events
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- March 21 - Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (died 1830)
- July 18 - Jean-Robert Argand, French mathematician (died 1822)
- Edward Donovan, Anglo-Irish natural historian (died 1837)
[edit] Deaths
- February 2 - Robert Smith, English mathematician (born 1689)
- April 29 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist (born 1694)
- June 15 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (born 1710)
- September 2 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (born 1703)
- September 11 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (born 1688)
- October 1 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (born 1687)
- November 26 - Edward Stone, English polymath (born 1702)[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Petrunkevitch, Alexander (June 1920). "Russia's Contribution to Science". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (New Haven) 23: 235.
- ^ "Genus: Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2010-07-07. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1617. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
- ^ "William Cookworthy 1705-80". Three Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol - The Story of Bristol Pottery and Porcelain. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110723002618/http://www.kalendar.demon.co.uk/cookworthy.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
- ^ Euler, L. (1768). Lettres à une Princesse d'Allemagne. St. Petersburg.
- ^ Baron, Margaret E. (May 1969). "A Note on The Historical Development of Logic Diagrams: Leibniz, Euler and Venn". The Mathematical Gazette (Mathematical Association) 53 (383): 113–125. JSTOR 3614533.
- ^ Mann, Ralph (2004). "Stone, Edward (1702–1768)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38014. Retrieved 2011-02-17. subscription or UK public library membership required
