1772 in science

none 1772 science 1772 The year 1772 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy Lagrange finds the special-case solution to the three-body problem that becomes known as the Lagrangian points.Presented to the Académie française. Cartography Johann Heinrich Lambert publishes seven new map projections, including the Lambert conformal conic, transverse Mercator and Lambert azimuthal equal area.Lambert Johann Heinrich Ammerkungen und Zusatze zurder Land und Himmelscharten Entwerfung 1772 Beiträge zum Gebrauche der Mathematik in deren Anwendung 3 6 Reprint: Anmerkungen und Zusätze zur Entwerfung der Land- und Himmelscharten W. Engelmann 1894 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ABR2581.0001.001 xml 2007-04-10 Translation: Notes and Comments on the Composition of Terrestrial and Celestial Maps 1972 University of Michigan PressSnyder John P. Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections University of Chicago Press 1993 0-226-76747-7Snyder John P. Map Projections: a Working Manual U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395 United States Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 1987 https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp1395 26 April 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20080516070706/http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp1395 May 16, 2008 Chemistry Daniel Rutherford isolates nitrogen.https://archive.org/details/elementsofchemis0000lavo registration 15 Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order: containing all the modern discoveries Lavoisier Antoine Laurent Antoine Lavoisier Courier Dover Publications 1965 0-486-64624-6 30 September 2010 Joseph Priestley synthesizes nitrous oxide as phlogisticated nitrous air.http://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=1973683 Keys T. E. The Development of Anesthesia Anesthesiology 1941 2 552–574 10.1097/00000542-194109000-00008 free Antoine Lavoisier privately presents his own views on phlogiston theory to the French Academy of Sciences. Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau demonstrates that metals gain weight on calcination.Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau Dissertation dur la phlogistique Digressions académiques, ou essais sur quelgues sujets de physique, de chymie & d'histoire naturelle Dijon Frantin 1772 Earth sciences The Central England temperature (CET) record begins daily measurements of mean surface air temperatures in the Midlands region of England.UK's warmest year on record predicted https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30304611 BBC 3 December 2014 3 December 2014 William Hamilton publishes Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcano's: in a series of letters addressed to the Royal Society from the Honorable Sir William Hamilton (London). Mathematics Euler confirms that is a Mersenne prime.Caldwell Chris http://primes.utm.edu/notes/by_year.html The largest known prime by year 2011-12-30 The Marquis de Condorcet publishes his second significant paper on integral calculus. Technology May 28 – The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal opens for traffic throughout in England from a junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal to the River Severn at Stourport. Engineered by James Brindley, this is the first British trunk canal completed and its dimensions determine the size of boat used throughout the narrow canal network (72 ft m by 7 ft m).Charles Hadfield Charles Hadfield (historian) The Canals of the West Midlands 2nd Newton Abbot David & Charles 1969 0-7153-4660-1 50 Andrew Meikle invents spring sails for windmills.http://odur.let.rug.nl/polders/boekje/features.htm Odur.net The important exterior features of a windmill 2008-04-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20120211113319/http://odur.let.rug.nl/polders/boekje/features.htm 2012-02-11 dead Publications Joseph Priestley – The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light and Colours ("Optics") Awards Copley Medal: Joseph PriestleyCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births February 11 – Thomas Webster, Scottish geologist (died 1844) June 8 – Robert Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (died 1850) April 15 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (died 1844) October 29 – Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire, French botanist (died 1845) November 22 - Pierre Amable Jean-Baptiste Trannoy, French physician, hygienist and botanist (died 1831)Date of birth on the marriage certificate https://archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/fsxkrp6h3dlz/a8b20ce0-57b3-4988-9fd3-3057ba5bfc1e archives.somme.fr 5 March 2021 fr November 28 – Luke Howard, English meteorologist and manufacturing chemist (died 1864) December 25 – John Mackay, Scottish botanist (died 1802) Deaths March 22 – John Canton, English physicist (born 1718) March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and theologian (born 1688) September 30 – James Brindley, English canal builder (born 1716) References 2 Category:18th century in science Category:1770s in science