1803 in science
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The year 1803 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- April 26 - A meteorite shower falls on L'Aigle in Normandy; Jean Baptiste Biot demonstrates that they are of extraterrestrial origin.[1][2][3]
[edit] Botany
- Publication (posthumously) of André Michaux's Flora Boreali-Americana in Paris, the first Flora of North America.
- University of Tartu Botanical Gardens established.
[edit] Chemistry
- January 1 - William Henry's formulation of his law on the solubility of gases first published.[4]
- October 21 - John Dalton's atomic theory and list of molecular weights first made known, at a lecture in Manchester.[5][6]
- William Hyde Wollaston discovers the chemical element rhodium.
- Smithson Tennant discovers the chemical elements iridium and osmium.
- Cerium is discovered in Bastnäs (Sweden) by Jöns Jakob Berzelius and Wilhelm Hisinger, and independently in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth.[7]
- Claude Louis Berthollet publishes Essai de statique chimique in Paris.
[edit] Exploration
- June 9 - Matthew Flinders completes the first known circumnavigation of Australia.[8]
[edit] Mathematics
- Gian Francesco Malfatti presents his conjecture regarding Malfatti circles.[9][10][11]
[edit] Medicine
- Dr Thomas Percival of Manchester publishes his Code of Medical Ethics, coining the expression medical ethics.[12]
[edit] Meteorology
- John Howard publishes the basis of the modern classification and nomenclature of clouds.[13][14]
[edit] Technology
- The first Fourdrinier continuous papermaking machine is installed in Hertfordshire, England.
[edit] Transport
- January 4 - William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas, the "first practical steamboat", in Scotland.
- July 26 - The Surrey Iron Railway, a wagonway between Wandsworth and Croydon, is opened, being the first public railway line in England.
- Thomas Telford begins work on construction of the Caledonian Canal and improving roads in Scotland.[15][16]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- February 28 - Christian Heinrich von Nagel, German geometer (d. 1882)
- April 1 - Miles Joseph Berkeley, English cryptogamist (d. 1889)
- May 12 - Justus von Liebig, chemist (d. 1873)
- May 24 - Charles Lucien Bonaparte, naturalist (d. 1857)
- July 31 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
- October 3 - John Gorrie, physician and inventor (d. 1855)
- October 16 - Robert Stephenson, English railway engineer (d. 1859)
- November 29 - Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and discoverer of the Doppler effect (d. 1853)
- December 21 - Joseph Whitworth, English mechanical engineer (d. 1887)
[edit] Deaths
- October 14 - Aimé Argand, Swiss physicist and chemist (b. 1750)
[edit] References
- ^ "Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni". Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University. http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/chladni.html.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of Scientists. Oxford University Press. 1999. p. 101.
- ^ Gounelle, M. (2003). "The meteorite fall at L'Aigle on April 26th 1803 and the Biot report". http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2003/pdf/5251.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
- ^ Henry, William (January 1, 1803). "Experiments on the Quantity of Gases Absorbed by Water, at Different Temperatures, and under Different Pressures". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) 93: 29–274. doi:10.1098/rstl.1803.0004.
- ^ Dalton, John (1805). "On the Absorption of Gases by Water and Other Liquids". Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 2nd ser. 1: 271–87. http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/dalton52.html.
- ^ "John Dalton, the man and his legacy: the bicentenary of his Atomic Theory". http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayArticleForFree.cfm?doi=b307622a&JournalCode=DT. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
- ^ "Cerium". Visual Elements. London: Royal Society of Chemistry. 1999-2005. http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/visualelements/pages/data/cerium_data.html. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ^ "British History Timeline". BBC History. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/empireseapower_timeline_noflash.shtml. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
- ^ Dörrie, H. (1965). "Malfatti's Problem". 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics: their History and Solutions. New York: Dover. pp. 147–151. ISBN 0-486-61348-8.
- ^ Goldberg, M. (1967). "On the Original Malfatti Problem". Mathematics Magazine 40: 241–247.
- ^ "Malfatti's Problem". cut-the-knot. http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/Malfatti.shtml. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
- ^ Davis, Michael (Fall 1999). "Writing a Code of Ethics". Perspectives on the Professions (Chicago: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT) 19 (1): 1–3. http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v19n1%20perspective.pdf. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ^ Howard, Luke (1803). "On the modifications of clouds, and on the principles of their production, suspension and destruction". Philosophical Magazine 16: 97–107, 344–57.
- ^ Thornes, John E. (1999). John Constable's Skies. The University of Birmingham Press. ISBN 1-902459-02-4.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 354. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 239–240. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
