1778 in science

none thumb|right 1778 science 1778 The year 1778 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy Lagrange delivers his treatise on cometary perturbations to the Académie française. Chemistry Molybdenum discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Antoine Lavoisier, considered "The father of modern chemistry","Lavoisier, Antoine." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 24 July 2007 . recognizes and names oxygen, and recognizes its importance and role in combustion.Weisstein Eric W. Lavoisier, Antoine (1743–1794) Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography Wolfram Research Products 1996 http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lavoisier.html 2007-02-23 Earth sciences and exploration January 18 – On his third voyage, Captain James Cook, with ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, becomes the first European to view the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.Collingridge Vanessa Vanessa Collingridge Captain Cook: The Life, Death and Legacy of History's Greatest Explorer London 2003 Ebury Press 0-09-188898-0 March 6 – October 24 – Captain Cook explores and maps the Pacific Northwest coast of North America from Cape Foulweather (Oregon) to the Bering Strait. James Rennell publishes a chart and memoir of the Agulhas Current, one of the first contributions to scientific oceanography.Andrew S. Cook Rennell, James (1742–1830) 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23369 2011-04-05 10.1093/ref:odnb/23369 Medicine John Hunter publishes The Natural History of the Human Teeth. Samuel-Auguste Tissot begins publication of Traité des nerfs et de leurs maladies, including a classical account of migraine.K. Karbowski April 1986 Samuel Auguste Tissot: his research on migraine Journal of Neurology 233 2 0340-5354 123–125 10.1007/BF00313859 3517238 24691943Pearce J.M.S. September 2000 Samuel-Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) and migraine Cephalalgia 20 7 668–70 Norway 0333-1024 11128826 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2000.00100.x 36466035 Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring describes the organization of the cranial nerves. Publication of Collection of observations on diseases and epidemic constitutions (Collection d’observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques), by Louis Lépecq de La Clôture, work consisting mainly of a 15-year observation of the relations between climate, geography and pathologies in Normandy.Lépecq de La Cloture Louis Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques: ouvrage qui expose une suite de quinze années d'observations, & dans lequel les épidémies, les constitutions régnantes & intercurrentes, sont liées (partie I) 1778 Imprimerie privilégiée Rouen https://books.google.com/books?id=pYqzJ4ToRt0C 28 February 2021 frLépecq de La Cloture Louis Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques: ouvrage qui expose une suite de quinze années d'observations, & dans lequel les épidémies, les constitutions régnantes & intercurrentes, sont liées (partie II, III et IV) 1778 Imprimerie privilégiée Rouen https://books.google.com/books?id=WyHbxb6AI_4C 28 February 2021 fr Technology Joseph Bramah patents an improved design of flush toilet in London.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 331–332 The brothers Hans Ulrich and Johannes Grubenmann complete a bridge across the Limmat at Wettingen in Switzerland, a 60 m span which is the first known use of a true arch in a timber bridge.Leonardo Fernández Troyano Bridge Engineering: a Global Perspective https://books.google.com/books?id=0u5G8E3uPUAC&q=Wettingen+bridge+1778&pg=PA159 Thomas Telford Publishing London 2003 0-7277-3215-3 158–9 2011-08-16 Zoology Petrus Camper publishes On the Points of Similarity between the Human Species, Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fish; with Rules for Drawing, founded on this Similarity, an early work of comparative anatomy. Johan Christian Fabricius publishes his Philosophia Entomologica in Hamburg.5 1967 Tuxen S. L. The entomologist J. C. Fabricius Annual Review of Entomology 12 10.1146/annurev.en.12.010167.000245 one of the most important books in entomology of all times Awards Copley Medal: Charles HuttonCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births February 4 – A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (died 1841) May 18 – Andrew Ure, Scottish industrial chemist and encyclopaedist (died 1857) December 6 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (died 1850) December 17 – Humphry Davy, English chemist (died 1829) December 25 (bapt.) – Joseph Aspdin, English inventor (died 1855) Maria Dalle Donne, Bolognese physician (died 1842) Anna Maria Walker, Scottish botanist (died 1852) Deaths January 10 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, first to develop standard nomenclature for naming species (born 1707) February 20 – Laura Bassi, Italian scientist (born 1711) March 7 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (born 1720) May 6 – Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, French pharmacist and botanist (born 1720) References Category:18th century in science Category:1770s in science