1786 in science

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The year 1786 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

• January 17 - Pierre Méchain first observes Comet Encke, from Paris.

Mathematics

• Erland Samuel Bring publishes Meletemata quaedam mathematematica circa transformationem aequationum algebraicarum, proposing algebraic solutions to quintic functions.

Metallurgy

• Ignaz von Born introduces a method of extracting metals using the patio process in his Uber des Anquicken der Erze.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Not awarded

Births

• January 5 - Thomas Nuttall, English naturalist (d. 1859)
• February 26 - François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1853)

Deaths

• February 22 - Thomas Wright, English astronomer (b. 1711)
• May 4 - Leonardo Ximenes, Tuscan polymath (b. 1716)
• May 15 - Eva Ekeblad, agronomist, first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (b. 1724)
• May 21 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b. 1742)