1791 in science

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The year 1791 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard begins publication of Histoire des champignons de la France, a significant text in mycology.
Luigi Galvani publishes his discoveries in "animal electricity" (Galvanism).^[1]

Nicolas Leblanc patents the Leblanc process for the production of soda ash (sodium carbonate) from common salt (sodium chloride).

Pierre Prévost shows that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are.

James Rumsey is granted a patent related to fluid power engineering, in England.^[2]

March 20 - John Farey, English mechanical engineer and technical writer (d. 1851)
April 9 - George Peacock, English mathematician (d. 1858)
April 27 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
July 13 - Allan Cunningham, English botanist and explorer (d. 1839)
September 4 - Robert Knox, Scottish anatomist (d. 1862)
September 22 - Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist (d. 1867)
September 23 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
December 26 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines (d. 1871)

^ In the treatise "De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius" ("Commentary on the Force of Electricity on Muscular Motion") published in the proceedings of the Institute of Sciences at Bologna (vol. 7) and separately at Modena the following year.
^ British patent no. 1825.
^ Ball, Philip (2004). Critical Mass. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. p. 53. ISBN 0374530416.