1822 in science

none 1822 science 1822 The year 1822 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Biology "Rostocker Pfeilstorch", a white stork, is found in northern Germany with an arrow from central Africa through its neck, demonstrating the fact of bird migration. Geology Georges Cuvier establishes new standards and methods in stratigraphy and paleontology. Gideon Mantell discovers the first fossil of the iguanodon. John Phillips and William Conybeare identify the Carboniferous Period. Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy identifies the Cretaceous Period. He also proposes the Jurassic System. Mathematics July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a "difference engine", a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions. Construction of an operational version will proceed under British Government sponsorship 1823–32 but it will never be completed.Anthony Hyman R. Anthony Hyman Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer Oxford University Press 1982 0-19-858170-X 51ff Karl Feuerbach describes the nine-point circle of a triangle.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 85 William Farish of the University of Cambridge publishes a systematization of the rules for isometric drawing.William Farish On Isometrical Perspective Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1 1822 1–19 http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/N12657793.pdf PDF 2012-05-29Barclay G. Jones 1986 Protecting historic architecture and museum collections from natural disasters Ann Arbor University of Michigan 0-409-90035-4 243Charles Edmund Moorhouse 1974 Visual messages: graphic communication for senior students Medicine United States Army surgeon William Beaumont pioneers human gastric endoscopy on Alexis St. Martin.Beaumont William Combe Andrew Andrew Combe Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion MacLachlan & Stewart Edinburgh 1838 reprint https://books.google.com/books?id=H6F4_9joRkgC 0-486-69213-2 2010-09-06 Scottish surgeon John Henry Wishart gives the first description in England of neurofibromatosis type II.Wishart J. H. 1822-07-01 Case of Tumours in the Skull, Dura Mater, and Brain Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal 18 72 393–397 0963-4932 5828850 30332030Ramsden R. T. Birch J. M. Evans D. G. R. 1999-12-01 Paediatric presentation of type 2 neurofibromatosis Archives of Disease in Childhood en 81 6 496–499 10.1136/adc.81.6.496 0003-9888 10569966 1718148 German poet and physician Justinus Kerner gives the first detailed description of botulism.Das Fettgift oder die Fettsäure und ihre Wirkung auf den tierischen Organismus. Physics Navier–Stokes equations in fluid dynamics first formulated. Technology May 23 – HMS Comet launched at Deptford Dockyard in the United Kingdom, the first steamboat commissioned by the Royal Navy. June 10 – The Aaron Manby crosses the English Channel, making her the first seagoing iron steamboat. French civil engineer Louis Vicat completes construction of a concrete viaduct across the Dordogne at Souillac, Lot.Chronologie scientifique, technologique et économique de la France Danièle Clermontel Jean-Claude Clermontel Paris Publibook 2009 241 Events September 11 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632) is permitted by the Roman Catholic Church to be published. Awards June 12 – Edward Banks knighted, the first such honour for work in civil engineering.M. H. Port Banks, Sir Edward (1770–1835) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1294 2010-10-31 10.1093/ref:odnb/1294 Copley Medal: William BucklandCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 22 July 2020 en Births January 2 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (died 1888) January 6 – Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (died 1890) January 12 – Étienne Lenoir, Belgian mechanical engineer (died 1900) February 16 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer, biologist (died 1911) April 18 – August Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer (died 1878) June 10 – Lydia White Shattuck, American botanist (died 1889) July 22 – Gregor Mendel, Silesian geneticist (died 1884) October 13 (O.S. October 1) – Lev Tsenkovsky, Polish-Ukrainian biologist (died 1887) December 27 – Louis Pasteur, French biologist (died 1895) Deaths January 21 – Marie-Aimée Lullin, Swiss entomologist (born 1751) February 23 – Johann Matthäus Bechstein, German naturalist (born 1757) June 23 – René Just Haüy, French mineralogist (born 1743) August 13 – Jean-Robert Argand, Swiss-born mathematician (born 1768) August 25 – William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (born 1738) November 6 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (born 1748) References Category:19th century in science Category:1820s in science