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Overview of the events of 1786 in science
The year 1786 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Biology
Linguistics
Mathematics
Technology
Awards
Births
January 5 – Thomas Nuttall , English naturalist (died 1859 )
February 26 – François Arago , French mathematician , physicist and astronomer (died 1853 )
February 28 – Christian Ramsay , Scottish botanist (died 1839 )
April 16 – Thomas Sewall , American anatomist (died 1845 )
April 28 – Elizabeth Andrew Warren , Cornish botanist and marine algolologist (died 1864 )
July 24 – Joseph Nicollet , French geographer, explorer, mathematician and astronomer (died 1843 )
November 3 – Ernst Friedrich Germar , German entomologist (died 1853)
December 6 – Johann Georg Bodmer , Swiss mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1864 )
Deaths
February 25 – Thomas Wright , English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist (born 1711 )
May 2 – Petronella Johanna de Timmerman , Dutch scientist (born 1723 )
May 4 – Leonardo Ximenes , Tuscan polymath (born 1716 )
May 15 – Eva Ekeblad , agronomist , first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (born 1724 )
May 21 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele , Swedish chemist (born 1742 )
October 16 – Alexander Wilson , Scottish polymath (born 1714 )
November 10 – John Hope , Scottish physician and botanist (born 1725 )
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