1773 in science
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The year 1773 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- October 13 - French astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy (pictured), an interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.
[edit] Chemistry
- Hilaire Rouelle discovers urea.
[edit] Exploration
- January 17 - Captain James Cook becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.
[edit] Linguistics
- Scottish judge James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, begins publication of Of the Origin and Progress of Language, a contribution to evolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment.
[edit] Medicine
- Medical Society of London founded by John Coakley Lettsom.
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: John Walsh
- John Harrison receives the Longitude prize for his invention of the first marine chronometer.[1]
[edit] Births
- January 29 - Friedrich Mohs, mineralogist (died 1839)
- May 19 - Arthur Aikin, chemist, mineralogist (died 1854)
- June 13 - Thomas Young, physicist (died 1829)
- July 23 - Thomas Brisbane, astronomer (died 1860)
- August 23 - Abraham Colles, surgeon (died 1843)
- December 21 - Robert Brown, botanist (died 1858)
- December 27 - George Cayley, pioneer of heavier-than-air flight (died 1857)
[edit] Deaths
- July 23 - George Edwards, naturalist (born 1693)
[edit] References
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800". http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
