1823 in science
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The year 1823 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Olbers' paradox is described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers.
- December 29 - Great Comet of 1823 first observed.
[edit] Chemistry
- June 17 - Charles Macintosh patents a method of rubberizing fabric to waterproof it.[1]
[edit] Exploration
- February 20 - James Weddell's expedition to Antarctica reaches latitude 74°15' S and longitude 34°16'45" W, the most southerly position that will be attained for more than 80 years.
[edit] Medicine
- October 5 - The Lancet founded by Thomas Wakley.
- Theodric Romeyn Beck publishes the first significant American book on forensic medicine, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence in Albany, New York.
[edit] Paleontology
- January - In a cave on the Gower Peninsula of Wales, William Buckland discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial. The bones are discovered with those of the woolly mammoth, proving that the two had coexisted.[2]
[edit] Physics
- William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet.
[edit] Technology
- First use of a Fresnel lens in a lighthouse optic, at the Cordouan lighthouse on the Gironde estuary.[3]
- First permanent wire cable suspension bridge, Pont Saint Antoine in Geneva, by Guillaume Henri Dufour, of two 40 m spans.[4]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 8 - Alfred Russel Wallace (d. 1913), British naturalist who devises the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin.
- February 3 - Spencer Fullerton Baird (d. 1887), American ornithologist and ichthyologist.
- December 22 - Jean Henri Fabre (d. 1915), French entomologist.
[edit] Deaths
- January 26 - Edward Jenner (b. 1749), English inventor of the vaccine.
- September 23 - Matthew Baillie (b. 1761), British pathologist
[edit] References
- ^ Prosser, R. B. (2004). "Macintosh, Charles (1766–1843)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17541. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17541. Retrieved 2011-04-23. subscription or UK public library membership required
- ^ Aldhouse-Green, Stephen (October 2001). "Great Sites: Paviland Cave". British Archaeology (61). http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba61/feat3.shtml. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
- ^ Watson, Bruce (August 1999). "Science Makes a Better Lighthouse Lens". Smithsonian 30: 30. http://libproxy.uncg.edu:2088/servlet/BioRC.
- ^ Peters, Tom F.; Andrea L. (1987). Transitions in Engineering: Guillaume Henri Dufour and the early 19th century Cable Suspension Bridges. Basel: Birkhauser. ISBN 3764319291.
