1809 in science

none 1809 science 1809 The year 1809 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy Carl Friedrich Gauss publishes la Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum in Hamburg, introducing the Gaussian gravitational constant and containing an influential treatment of the least squares method.1809 Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 0-671-74919-6 379 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun S. D. Poisson publishes fr Sur les inégalités séculaires des moyens mouvements des planètes and fr Sur la variation des constantes arbitraires dans les questions de mécanique in the Journal of the École Polytechnique, extending Lagrange's theory of planetary orbits. Biology Jean-Baptiste Lamarck publishes Philosophie Zoologique, outlining his theory of evolution. Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link first describes Penicillium.Link J. H. F. Observationes in ordines plantarum naturales. Dissertatio I Magazin der Gesellschaft Naturforschenden Freunde Berlin 1809 3 3–42 Latin http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/dms/loader/img/?PID=PPN608227714_0003&physid=PHYS_0031 Geology William Maclure publishes the first geological map of the United States with accompanying memoir.Observations on the Geology of the United States explanatory of a Geological Map Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 4 1809 91 Mathematics Louis Poinsot describes the two remaining Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra. Medicine December 25 – American physician Ephraim McDowell performs the world's first ovariotomy, the removal of an ovarian tumor.Ephraim McDowell The Qualities of a Good Surgeon Annals of Surgery H. Biemann Othersen 648–650 15082968 10.1097/01.sla.0000124382.04128.5a 239 5 1356272 May 2004 Philippe Pinel publishes accounts of what would later be regarded as schizophrenia.Heinrichs R. W. Historical origins of schizophrenia: two early madmen and their illness Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 39 349–63 2003 14601041 10.1002/jhbs.10152 free Technology February 11 – Robert Fulton patents the steamboat in the United States.http://www.thinkfinity.org/2011-02-11_Fulton-patents-steamboat Robert Fulton patented the steamboat in 1809 Thinkfinity Verizon 2011-04-15 https://archive.today/20110724093727/http://www.thinkfinity.org/2011-02-11_Fulton-patents-steamboat 2011-07-24 deadhttp://www.todayinsci.com/F/Fulton_Robert/FultonPatents.htm The Fulton Patents Today in Science History 2011-04-15 May 5 – Mary Kies becomes one of the first women granted a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw hats with silk and thread.http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blkeis.htm https://archive.today/20120710071938/http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blkeis.htm dead July 10, 2012 Mary Kies - Patenting Pioneer 2007-05-14 About.com Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring invents a water voltameter electrical telegraph. William Hyde Wollaston invents the reflecting goniometer. Awards Copley Medal: Edward TroughtonCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births January 4 – Louis Braille (died 1852), French inventor. January 6 – Marie Durocher (died 1893), Brazilian physician. February 12 – Charles Darwin (died 1882), English naturalist. February 15 – Cyrus McCormick (died 1884), American inventor. February 21 – Carl Ernst Bock (died 1874), German physician and anatomist. April 7 – James Glaisher (died 1903), English meteorologist and balloonist. April 15 – Hermann Grassmann (died 1877), German mathematician. April 20 – James David Forbes (died 1868), Scottish physicist, glaciologist and seismologist. August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (died 1894), American physician and writer. November 22 – Bénédict Morel (died 1873), French psychiatrist. Date unknown – William Lobb (died 1864), English plant collector. Deaths May 17 – Leopold Auenbrugger (born 1722), Austrian physician. August 18 – Matthew Boulton (born 1728), English mechanical engineer. October 11 – Meriwether Lewis (born 1774), American explorer. December 16 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (born 1755), French chemist. December 29 – Thomas Barker (born 1722), English meteorologist. References Category:19th century in science Category:1800s in science