1806 in science

none 1806 science 1806 The year 1806 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Biology July 3 – Michael Keens of Isleworth, England, selects the Keens Imperial cultivar of strawberry from many hybrids, which becomes a popular commercial breed in this century.Johnson Harold A. The Contributions of Private Strawberry Breeders https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/downloadpdf/journals/hortsci/25/8/article-p897.pdf HortScience 25 8 897–902 August 1990 10.21273/HORTSCI.25.8.897 Publication begins in London of the Flora Graeca collected by John Sibthorp.Harris Stephen The Magnificent Flora Graeca: How the Mediterranean Came to the English Garden Oxford Bodleian Library 2007 978-1-85124-306-8Lack H. Walter Mabberley David 1998 The Flora Graeca Story: Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant Oxford University Press 0-19-854897-4 Pierre André Latreille begins publication in France of la Genera crustaceorum et insectorum, secundum ordinem naturalem ut familias disposita. Chemistry November 20 – Humphry Davy presents the results of his researches in the electrolysis of water to the Royal Society of London. Louis Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolate asparagine in crystalline form from asparagus juice in France, the first amino acid identified. Exploration August – English seal hunter Abraham Bristow discovers the Auckland Islands.Mawar Granville Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling 1999 St. Martin's Press New York 0-312-22809-0 registration https://archive.org/details/ahabstradesagaof00maweA. G. E. Jones Captain Abraham Bristow and the Auckland Islands Notes and Queries 1970 17 10 369–371 10.1093/nq/17-10-369 Mathematics Jean-Robert Argand introduces the Argand diagram.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know https://archive.org/details/50mathematicalid0000cril registration London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 Adrien-Marie Legendre gives the first published application of the method of least squares, in a supplement to his fr Nouvelles méthodes pour la détermination des orbites des comètes.Jean Itard Legendre, Adrien-Marie http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902535.html Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography New York 2008 2012-01-23 Medicine John Bell concludes publication of The Principles of Surgery in two volumes (1801–06). Its treatment of arterial surgery in particular ranks him as a founder of vascular surgery.K. Grudzien Baston Bell, John (1763–1820) 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2013 2011-04-06 10.1093/ref:odnb/2013 His brother Charles Bell publishes Essays on The Anatomy of Expression in Painting. Technology October 7 – Carbon paper patented by Ralph Wedgwood in the United Kingdom.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 Awards Copley Medal: Thomas Andrew KnightCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births January 14 – Matthew Fontaine Maury, American oceanographer (died 1873) February 14 – Joseph-François Malgaigne, French surgeon (died 1865) February 18 – Eduard Heis, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1877) April 9 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British civil engineer (died 1859) June 12 – John A. Roebling, German American bridge engineer (died 1869) June 27 – Augustus De Morgan, British logician (died 1871) November 21 – Alexander Henry Haliday, Irish entomologist (died 1870) December 11 Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (died 1886) Alfred Swaine Taylor, English toxicologist, "father of British forensic medicine" (died 1880) Approximate date – Luther V. Bell, American psychiatric physician (died 1862) Deaths c. January?? – Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of West Africa (born 1771) April 5 – Benjamin Bell, Scottish surgeon (born 1749) June 23 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist (born 1723) August 3 – Michel Adanson, French botanist (born 1727) August 23 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (born 1736) October 9 – Benjamin Banneker, African-American astronomer and surveyor (born 1731) References Category:19th century in science Category:1800s in science