1793 in science

none 1793 science 1793 The year 1793 in science and technology involved some significant events. Events August 8 – The French Academy of Sciences is among the academies suppressed by the National Convention. October 24 – The French Republican Calendar, devised by Gilbert Romme, is adopted by the National Convention. Exploration July 20 – Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie's 1792–1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia, making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America. Biology June 10 – fr Muséum national d'histoire naturelle no formally established in Paris by the National Convention of the French First Republic. Christian Konrad Sprengel publishes de Das entdeckte Geheimnis der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen in Berlin, pioneering the study of pollination ecology. Chemistry Scottish chemist Thomas Charles Hope confirms the existence of the alkaline earth metal which he names strontites; later isolated as strontium.Although Hope had investigated strontium ores since 1791, his research was published in: Hope Thomas C 1798 Account of a mineral from Strontian and of a particular species of earth which it contains https://zenodo.org/record/1428672 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 4 2 3–39 10.1017/s0080456800030726Murray T. 1993 Elemementary Scots: The Discovery of Strontium Scottish Medical Journal 38 188–189 8146640 6 10.1177/003693309303800611 20396691 Medicine Matthew Baillie publishes The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body, considered the first systematic study of pathology and the first publication in English on it as a separate subject.http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011817/Matthew-Baillie Matthew Baillie Encyclopædia Britannica Online 2007-08-11 He is credited with first identifying transposition of the great vessels and situs inversus. John Bell begins publication in Edinburgh of The Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles & Joints (the first volume of The Anatomy of the Human Body, which will go through at least seven editions) and Discourses on the Nature and Cure of Wounds with illustrations by himself and his brother Charles.K. Grudzien Baston Bell, John (1763–1820) 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2013 2011-04-06 10.1093/ref:odnb/2013L. S. Jacyna Bell, Sir Charles (1774–1842) 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1999 2011-04-06 10.1093/ref:odnb/1999 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia in the United States. Dominique Jean Larrey, chief surgeon of the French Revolutionary Army, creates the first battlefield "flying ambulance" service. Metrology The grave, the original name for the kilogram, is defined by the Commission of Weights and Measures of the French Academy of Sciences. Technology May 15 – Spanish inventor Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for about 360 m (1,180ft). October 28 – Eli Whitney applies for a United States patent for his cotton gin (the patent is granted the following March). Hannah Slater applies for a United States patent for her new method of producing sewing thread from cotton. Awards Copley Medal: Not awardedCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births January 31 – Joseph Paul Gaimard, French naval surgeon and naturalist (died 1858) April 15 – Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, Baltic astronomer (died 1864) April – Thomas Addison, English physician and scientist (suicide 1860) May 6 – William Dick, Scottish veterinarian (died 1866) July 13 – George Green, English mathematician (died 1841) July 18 – Jean-Alfred Gautier, Swiss astronomer (died 1881)028831 Alfred Gautier Marcel Golay Deaths April 21 – John Michell, English geologist (born 1724) May 20 – Charles Bonnet, Genevan naturalist (born 1720) May 26 – Eliza Lucas, American agronomist (born 1722) May 28 – Anton Friedrich Büsching, German geographer (born 1724) June 26 – Gilbert White, English naturalist (born 1720) August 21 – James Small, Scottish inventor (born 1740) September 26 – Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, French mycologist (born 1742) October 16 – John Hunter, Scottish surgeon, pathologist and comparative anatomist (born 1728) References Category:18th century in science Category:1790s in science