1782 in science

none 1782 science 1782 The year 1782 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. Aviation December 14 – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly a hot air balloon; it floats nearly 2 km mi on.Charles Coulston Gillispie The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784 Princeton University Press 1983 0-691-08321-5 21 Biology Jesuit abbot Juan Ignacio Molina publishes Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del ChiliTranslated into English as The Geographical, Natural and Civil History of Chili, in two volumes. Volume I, Volume II. in Spain, the first account of the natural history of his native Chile, describing many species to science for the first time (e.g., Araucaria araucana). Chemistry Telluride minerals are first discovered in a gold mine in Kleinschlatten, Transylvania (modern-day Zlatna, Romania) by Austrian mineralogist Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein. Winter 1782–83 – Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace begin to use the world's first ice calorimeter to determine the heat evolved in various chemical changes (calculations based on Joseph Black's prior discovery of latent heat), marking the foundation of thermochemistry. Medicine May – First patient admitted to Montrose Lunatic Asylum, the first such institution to be founded in Scotland, largely due to Susan Carnegie of Charleton.Walbaum Sharlene D. 2019-12-01 The invisible woman: Susan Carnegie and Montrose Lunatic Asylum https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X19860035 History of Psychiatry en 30 4 409–423 10.1177/0957154X19860035 31257940 195760632 0957-154X subscription September – Nottingham General Hospital opens to patients in England.Bittiner John Bruce Lowe David 1990 Nottingham General Hospital - Personal Reflections Nottingham http://www.nottinghamhospitalshistory.co.uk/NOTTINGHAM%20GENERAL%20HOSPITAL.pdf Special Trustees for Nottingham University Hospitals 8 2018-10-10 2019-11-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20181010011138/http://www.nottinghamhospitalshistory.co.uk/NOTTINGHAM%20GENERAL%20HOSPITAL.pdf dead Physics Jean-Paul Marat publishes Recherches physiques sur l'électricité (Research into the Physics of Electricity) Giordano Riccati publishes experiments determining what will later be known as Young's modulus.G. Riccati 1782 Delle vibrazioni sonore dei cilindri Memoria di Matematica e di Fisica della Società Italiana del Scienze 1 444–525 Technology John Arnold patents his improvements in the construction of marine chronometers in Britain.Jonathan Betts Jonathan Betts Arnold, John (1735/6–1799) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/677 2012-03-09 10.1093/ref:odnb/677 Institutions Princess Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova is appointed Director of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences in Saint Petersburg.Dashkov, Catherina Romanovna Vorontsov, Princess 7 844 Awards Copley Medal: Richard KirwanCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births April 7 – Marie-Anne Libert, Belgian botanist (died 1865) June 3 – Charles Waterton, English naturalist and explorer (died 1865) June 16 – Olry Terquem, French Jewish geometer (died 1862) Deaths January 18 – Sir John Pringle, Scottish-born physician (born 1707) March 17 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician (born 1700) April 15 – Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Swedish botanist (born 1743) May 6 – Christine Kirch, German astronomer (born 1696) May 16 – Daniel Solander, Swedish-born botanist (born 1733) May 20 – William Emerson, English mathematician (born 1701) References Category:18th century in science Category:1780s in science