1807 in science

none 1807 science 1807 The year 1807 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy March 29 – H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid which Carl Friedrich Gauss names Vesta.JPL Small-Body Database Browser 4 Vesta http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=4 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2011-08-09 Chemistry Potassium and sodium are isolated by Sir Humphry Davy. The use of fulminate in firearms is patented by Scottish clergyman Alexander John Forsyth.http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/rifle-history.htm Rifled Breech Loader globalsecurity.org 22 September 2011 Geology The Geological Society is founded in London; among the more prominent founders are William Babington, James Parkinson, Humphry Davy and George Bellas Greenough. Mathematics William Wallace proves that any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable, later known as the Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem.Ian Stewart From Here to Infinity Oxford University Press 1996 3rd 978-0-19-283202-3 169 Medicine Samuel Hahnemann first introduces the term 'homeopathy' in an essay, "Indications of the Homeopathic Employment of Medicines in Ordinary Practice", published in Versammlung der Hufelandische medicinisch-chirurgischen Gesellschaft.Martin Gumpert Hahnemann: the Adventurous Career of a Medical Rebel https://archive.org/details/hahnemannadventu0000gump registration English-language New York Fischer 1945 130 British Army surgeon John Vetch describes the keratoconjunctivitis ("Egyptian ophthalmia") suffered by troops returned from service overseas;John Vetch An Account of the Ophthalmia London Longman 1807 he identifies it as epidemic.Robert M. Feibel John Vetch and the Egyptian Ophthalmia History of Ophthalmology Survey of Ophthalmology 28 1983 128–34 https://www.surveyophthalmol.com/article/0039-6257(83)90082-6/fulltext Technology July 20 – French brothers Claude and Nicéphore Niépce receive a patent for their Pyréolophore, an early internal combustion engine, having demonstrated it powering a boat on the Saône. August 17 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat makes her first trip from New York City to Albany. November 19 – English inventor Lionel Lukin launches the world's first sailing self-righting rescue life-boat, the Frances Anne, at Lowestoft.Malster, Robert The Minute Books of the Suffolk Humane Society... and the world's first sailing lifeboat Woodbridge Boydell Press 2013 Suffolk Records Society, vol. 56 978-1-84383-805-0 William Cubitt patents self-regulating sails for windmills.Peter Brown Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861) http://www.peter-quita.demon.co.uk/cubitt.htm 2011-07-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20110716105157/http://www.peter-quita.demon.co.uk/cubitt.htm 16 July 2011 Henry Maudslay patents an improved table engine. William Hyde Wollaston patents the camera lucida.The camera lucida in art and science 1987 Taylor & Francis Hammond John Austin Jill Zoology April 21 – The Tasmanian devil is first described, by George Prideaux Robert Harris.Harris G. P. 1807 Description of two new Species of Didelphis from Van Diemen's Land Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 9 174–78 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1818.tb00336.x http://biostor.org/reference/5734 2015-12-10 Publications Alexander von Humboldt's fr Le Voyage aux Régions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799–1804, par Alexandre de Humboldt et Aimé Bonpland begins publication. Thomas Young's A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts published. Awards Copley Medal: Everard HomeCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopædia Britannica 21 July 2020 Births January 28 – Robert McClure, Irish-born Arctic explorer (died 1873) May 28 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (died 1873) November 14 – Auguste Laurent, French chemist (died 1853) November 30 – William Farr, English epidemiologist (died 1883) Deaths February 27 – Louise du Pierry, French astronomer (born 1746) April 4 – Jérôme Lalande, French astronomer (born 1732) December 5 – Francis Willis, English physician specialising in mental disorders (born 1718) References Category:19th century in science Category:1800s in science