1788 in science

none 1788 science 1788 The year 1788 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy December 21 – Caroline Herschel discovers the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet. Biology Dr. Edward Jenner publishes his observation that it is the newly hatched common cuckoo which pushes its host's eggs and chicks out of the nest.Edward Jenner Observations on the Natural History of the Cuckoo, in a Letter to John Hunter, Esq. F.R.S. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London 1788-03-13 78 219–237 https://archive.org/details/philtrans06624558 2013-05-08 10.1098/rstl.1788.0016 freeCuckoo chicks evicting their nest mates: coincidental observations by Edward Jenner in England and Antoine Joseph Lottinger in France Spencer G. Sealy Mélanie F. Guigueno Archives of Natural History 38 2011 220–228 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/anh.2011.0030 10.3366/anh.2011.0030 PDF 0260-9541 2013-05-08 subscription James E. Smith founds the Linnean Society of London. Utamaro publishes Ehon Mushi Erami ("Picture Book of Crawling Creatures") in Japan with color illustrations.Utamaro http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/utamaro/ Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 2013-12-02 Thomas Walter publishes Flora Caroliniana, the first flora of North America to follow Linnaean taxonomy.Daniel B. Ward Scientific Note: Quercus sinuata Walter ... Rediscovered and Neotypified http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.2179/0008-7475%282007%2972%5B177%3ASNQSWH%5D2.0.CO%3B2 Castanea Southern Appalachian Botanical Society 72 3 177–181 2007 10.2179/0008-7475(2007)72[177:SNQSWH]2.0.CO;2 2011-04-05 subscription Gilbert White publishes The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton (dated 1789), a pioneering observational study of English ecology. Earth sciences James Hutton's Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe is published for the first time, in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.Vol. 1(2) pp. 209–304. Theory of the Earth. https://web.archive.org/web/20030729055405/http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/hutton/hutton.htm July 29, 2003 Mechanics Lagrange's Mécanique analytique is published in Paris, introducing Lagrangian mechanics. Medicine December 5 – Rev. Dr. Francis Willis is called in to advise on treatment of the mental condition of King George III of the United Kingdom. Technology February 1 – Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent a steamboat in the United States. October 14 – William Symington demonstrates a paddle steamer on Dalswinton Loch in Scotland.Harvey W. S. Downs-Rose G. 1980 William Symington, Inventor and Engine Builder London Northgate Publishing 0-85298-443-XMacleod Innes Neil James The Dalswinton steamboat 1788–1988 Dumfries Farries 1988 0-948278-08-0 Awards Copley Medal: Charles BlagdenCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births March 7 – Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (died 1878) March 22 – Pierre Joseph Pelletier, French chemist (died 1842) April 18 – Charlotte Murchison, Scottish geologist (died 1869) May 10 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (died 1827) July 1 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mechanical and military engineer and mathematician (died 1867) July 23 – Prideaux John Selby, English ornithologist (died 1867) September 12 – Charlotte von Siebold, German gynecologist (died 1859) October 14 – Edward Sabine, Anglo Irish physicist, astronomer and explorer (died 1883) December 21 – Thomas Southwood Smith, English physician and sanitary reformer (died 1861) James Murray, Irish physician (died 1871) Deaths April 16 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (born 1707) May 8 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-Austrian naturalist (born 1723) October 17 – John Brown, Scottish-born physician (born 1735) December 6 - Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer (born 1723) Lucia Galeazzi Galvani, Italian scientist (born 1743) approx. date – Moses Harris, English entomologist and engraver (born 1730) References Category:18th century in science Category:1780s in science