1811 in science
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The year 1811 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- March 25 - Great Comet discovered by Honoré Flaugergues.
[edit] Biology
- Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger publishes Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium, an updating of Linnean taxonomy and a major influence on the concept of the 'Family' in biology. He first defines the infraclass Marsupialia.
- Peter Simon Pallas begins publication of Zoographia rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio rossico, et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicilia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum in Saint Petersburg.
[edit] Chemistry
- Bernard Courtois discovers iodine.[1]
[edit] Mathematics
- Carl Friedrich Gauss works with functions of complex number variables.[2]
- S. D. Poisson publishes Traité de mécanique (vol. 1).
[edit] Medicine
- Charles Bell publishes An Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain,[3] starting to distinguish between sensory and motor nerves.
- Abraham Colles publishes A Treatise on Surgical Anatomy in Dublin.
- Francis Place publishes Illustrations and Proofs of the Principles of Population, including an examination of the proposed remedies of Mr. Malthus, and a reply to the objections of Mr. Godwin and others in London, the first significant text in English to advocate contraception.[4]
[edit] Paleontology
- Mary Anning discovers the fossilised remains of an Ichthyosaur at Lyme Regis.
[edit] Physics
- Amedeo Avogadro proposes his hypothesis relating volumes and numbers of molecules of gases.
[edit] Technology
- Friedrich Koenig, with the assistance of Andreas Friedrich Bauer, produces the first steam printing press, in London.[5]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- March 11 - Urbain Le Verrier, French astronomer (d. 1877)
- March 30 - Robert Bunsen, German chemist (d. 1899)
- July 13 - James Young, Scottish chemist (d. 1883)
- October 25 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
- John Waterston, Scottish physicist and civil engineer (d. 1883)
[edit] Deaths
- February 9 - Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1732)
- August 31 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
- September 8 - Peter Simon Pallas, German-born naturalist (b. 1741)
[edit] References
- ^ Swain, Patricia A. (2005). "Bernard Courtois (1777–1838), famed for discovering iodine (1811), and his life in Paris from 1798". Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 30: 103–11. http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/OPA%20Papers/2007-Swain.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Repr. of An Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain
- ^ "Francis Place". Spartacus Educational. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CHplace.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-12.
- ^ Patented in 1810. Meggs, Philip B. (1998). A History of Graphic Design. Wiley. pp. 130–133. ISBN 0-471-291-98-6.
