1777 in science
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The year 1777 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Mathematics
- Leonhard Euler introduces the symbol i to represent the square root of -1.[1]
[edit] Technology
- probable date - Thomas Arnold of London produces the first watch ("Arnold 36") to be called a chronometer.[2][3]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- February 12 - Bernard Courtois, chemist (died 1838)
- April 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician (died 1855)
- May 4 - Louis Jacques Thénard, chemist (died 1857)
- August 14 - Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist (died 1851)
[edit] Deaths
- September 22 - John Bartram, naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany" (born 1699)
- December 7 - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born 1708)
[edit] References
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ An account kept during thirteen months in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich of the going of a pocket chronometer made on a new construction by John Arnold. London. 1780.
- ^ "chronometer, n.". Oxford English Dictionary online version. 1989. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/32606. Retrieved 2012-03-09. subscription or UK public library membership required
