1785 in science
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The year 1785 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Aviation
- January 7 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
[edit] Biology
- Antoine François and Étienne Louis Geoffroy publish Entomologia Parisiensis, sive, Catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur ....
- John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, publishes Botanical Tables, containing the different families of British plants.
[edit] Earth sciences
- March–July - James Hutton's Theory of the Earth is first presented, at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[1]
[edit] Exploration
- André Michaux is sent by the French government to North America to look for new plants.
[edit] Mathematics
- The Marquis de Condorcet publishes Essai sur l'application de l'analyse á la probabilité des décisions rendues á la pluralité des voix including his voting paradox, the Condorcet method of voting and his jury theorem.
[edit] Medicine
- William Withering publishes An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 15 - William Prout, chemist (died 1850)
- February 26 - Anna Sundström, chemist (died 1871)
- March 22 - Adam Sedgwick, geologist (died 1873)
- April 26 - John James Audubon, naturalist, illustrator (died 1851)
- July 6 - William Jackson Hooker, botanist (died 1865)
[edit] Deaths
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[edit] References
- ^ Hutton, James (1788). "Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1 (2): 209–304. http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/hutton/hutton.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-12.
