1808 in science
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The year 1808 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
[edit] Chemistry
- Barium, calcium, magnesium, and strontium isolated by Sir Humphry Davy.
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac formulates the law of combining volumes for gases.
- John Dalton begins publication of A New System of Chemical Philosophy, explaining his atomic theory of chemistry and including a list of atomic weights.
[edit] Mathematics
- German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss publishes Theorematis arithmetici demonstratio nova, introducing Gauss's lemma in the third proof of quadratic reciprocity.
- Irish American mathematician Robert Adrain produces a formulation of the method of least squares.[1]
[edit] Natural history
- January 12 - Organizational meeting leading to creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society is held in Edinburgh.[2][3]
- Alexander von Humboldt publishes his Ansichten der Natur.
[edit] Technology
- February 11 - Anthracite coal is first burned as fuel by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; the discovery leads to the use of coal as a key fuel source of the industrial revolution in the United States.
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: William Henry
- Joseph Louis Lagrange is appointed by Napoleon as a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour and a Comte of the French Empire.
[edit] Births
- July 8 - George Robert Gray, English zoologist (d. 1872).
- July 25 - Johann Benedict Listing, German mathematician (d. 1882).
- August 4 - Johann Ritter von Oppolzer, Austrian physician (d. 1871).
- November 6 - Friedrich Julius Richelot, German mathematician (d. 1875).
[edit] Deaths
- March 3 - Johan Christian Fabricius, Danish entomologist (b. 1745).
- May 18 - Rev. Elijah Craig, American inventor of bourbon whiskey (b. uncertain).
- December 24 - Thomas Beddoes, reforming English physician (b. 1760).
[edit] References
- ^ Published in his own journal, The Analyst, or, Mathematical Museum 1(4), probably issued in 1809. Stigler, Stephen M. (2004). "Adrain, Robert (1775–1843)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/172. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/172. Retrieved 2012-01-23. subscription or UK public library membership required
- ^ "Wernerian Natural History Society". Scholarly Societies Project. http://www.scholarly-societies.org/history/1808wnhs.html. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ^ Sweet, Jessie M. (1967). "The Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh". Freiberger Forschungshefte, Reihe C 223: 205–218.
