1768 in science

none 1768 science 1768 thumb|right The year 1768 in science and technology involved some significant events. Biology Steller's sea cow is hunted to extinction. Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti becomes auctor of the class of reptiles through his la Specimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatam cum Experimentis circa Venena on the poisonous function of reptiles and amphibians. He also publishes it Il Dragone describing the olm, one of the first accounts of a cave animal in the western world. Caspar Friedrich Wolff begins publication of "De Formatione Intestinarum" in the Mémoires of The Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences (Saint Petersburg), a significant work in the science of embryology.Alexander Petrunkevitch Russia's Contribution to Science Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences New Haven 23 235 June 1920 Lazzaro Spallanzani challenges the spontaneous generation of cellular life. Botany Bougainvillea is first classified in Brazil by Philibert Commerçon, the botanist accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville's French Navy voyage of circumnavigation.http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1617 Genus: Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss. Germplasm Resources Information Network United States Department of Agriculture 2010-07-07 2010-12-14 Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau's Traité des arbres fruitiers is published in Paris. Chemistry March 17 – William Cookworthy is granted a patent for the manufacture of porcelain from kaolinite in England.http://www.kalendar.demon.co.uk/cookworthy.htm William Cookworthy 1705-80 Three Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol – The Story of Bristol Pottery and Porcelain 2011-06-17 https://web.archive.org/web/20110723002618/http://www.kalendar.demon.co.uk/cookworthy.htm 23 July 2011 Exploration Peter Simon Pallas begins a scientific expedition through the Russian Empire. Mathematics Leonhard Euler uses closed curves (which become known as Euler diagrams) to illustrate syllogistic reasoning.Euler L. Lettres à une Princesse d'Allemagne Saint Petersburg 1768Baron Margaret E. Margaret Baron A Note on The Historical Development of Logic Diagrams: Leibniz, Euler and Venn The Mathematical Gazette 3614533 Mathematical Association 53 383 113–125 May 1969 Events Joseph Wright of Derby paints An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. Publications Leonhard Euler's Letters to a German Princess (Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie) are first published, in Saint Petersburg. Awards Copley Medal: Peter WoulfeCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births February 15 – Anthony Carlisle, English surgeon (died 1840) March 21 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (died 1830) March 22 – Bryan Donkin, English engineer and inventor (died 1855) July 18 Jean-Robert Argand, French mathematician (died 1822) Giuseppangelo Fonzi, Italian dentist (died 1840)giuseppangelo-lucinto-fonzi_(Dizionario-Biografico) Giuseppangelo Lucinto Fonzi Luciano Bonuzzi 1997 date unknown Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, French astronomer (died 1832) Edward Donovan, Anglo-Irish natural historian (died 1837) Amelia Griffiths, English phycologist (died 1858) Wang Zhenyi, female Chinese astronomer (died 1797) Deaths January 29 – John Martyn, English botanist (born 1699) February 2 – Robert Smith, English mathematician (born 1689) April 29 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist (born 1694) June 15 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (born 1710) September 2 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (born 1703) September 11 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (born 1688) October 1 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (born 1687) November 26 – Edward Stone, English polymath (born 1702)Ralph Mann Stone, Edward (1702–1768) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38014 2011-02-17 References Category:18th century in science Category:1760s in science