1770 in science

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The year 1770 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Biology

• Arthur Young publishes A Course of Experimental Agriculture in England.

Chemistry

• Benjamin Rush publishes Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Chemistry in Philadelphia, the first chemistry textbook in North America.

Mathematics

• Lagrange discusses representations of integers by general algebraic forms; produces a tract on elimination theory; publishes his first paper on the general process for solving an algebraic equation of any degree via Lagrange resolvents; and proves Bachet's theorem that every positive integer is the sum of four squares.

Medicine

• January - Outbreak of Russian plague of 1770-1772.
• October 18 - Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England, admits its first patients.

Paleontology

• The fossilised bones of a huge animal (later identified as a Mosasaur) are found in a quarry near Maastricht in the Netherlands.

Technology

• July - James Hargreaves obtains a British patent for the spinning jenny.

Awards

• Copley Medal: William Hamilton

Births

• April 9 - Thomas Johann Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831)
• William Nicol, Scottish geologist (d. 1851)

Deaths

• April 25 - Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet, French physicist (b. 17)0)
• September 9 - Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, German-born anatomist in Holland (b. 1697)
• December 5 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)