1777 in science

none 1777 science 1777 The year 1777 in science and technology involved some significant events. Exploration March – Third voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain Cook discovers Mangaia and Atiu in the Cook Islands. Mathematics Leonhard Euler introduces the symbol i to represent the square root of −1.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 32 Technology probable date – Thomas Arnold of London produces the first watch ("Arnold 36") to be called a chronometer.An account kept during thirteen months in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich of the going of a pocket chronometer made on a new construction by John Arnold London 1780chronometer, n. Oxford English Dictionary online version 2nd 1989 http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/32606 2012-03-09 Awards Copley Medal: John MudgeCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births February 12 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist (died 1838) April 30 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (died 1855) May 4 – Louis Jacques Thénard, French chemist (died 1857) May 18 – John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist and entomologist (died 1852) August 14 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (died 1851) Deaths September 22 – John Bartram, naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany" (born 1699) September 25 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss polymath (born 1728) December 7 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born 1708) Celia Grillo Borromeo, Italian scientist and mathematician (born 1684) References Category:18th century in science Category:1770s in science