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Overview of the events of 1709 in science
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The year
1709 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Meteorology
[
edit
]
January –
Great Frost
in
Western Europe
.
[1]
[2]
Physics
[
edit
]
Francis Hauksbee
publishes
Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects
, summarizing the results of his many experiments with
electricity
and other topics.
Technology
[
edit
]
January 10 –
Industrial Revolution
:
Abraham Darby I
successfully produces
cast iron
using
coke fuel
at his
Coalbrookdale
blast furnace
in
Shropshire
,
England
.
[3]
[4]
[5]
February 5 – Dramatist
John Dennis
devises the
thundersheet
as a new method of producing theatrical thunder for his tragedy
Appius and Virginia
at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
,
London
.
[6]
March 28 –
Johann Friedrich Böttger
reports the first production of
hard-paste porcelain
in Europe, at
Dresden
.
July 13 –
Johann Maria Farina
founds the first
Eau de Cologne and perfume factory
in
Cologne
,
Germany
.
August 8 –
Hot air balloon
of
Bartholome de Gusmão
flies in
Portugal
.
A collapsible
umbrella
is introduced in
Paris
.
[7]
Awards
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edit
]
April 9 –
Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet
dies and in his will provides funding to the
Royal Society
for the annual
Copley Medal
honoring achievement in science (first awarded in
1731
).
Births
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edit
]
February 24 –
Jacques de Vaucanson
, French engineer and inventor (died
1782
)
March 3 –
Andreas Sigismund Marggraf
, German chemist (died 1782)
March 10 –
Georg Steller
, German naturalist (died
1746
)
April 17 –
Giovanni Domenico Maraldi
, French-Italian astronomer (died
1788
)
July 11 –
Johan Gottschalk Wallerius
, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (died
1785
)
August 8 –
Johann Georg Gmelin
, German botanist (died
1755
)
November 23 –
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
, French physician and philosopher (died
1751
)
Deaths
[
edit
]
early
–
Eleanor Glanville
,
English
entomologist
(born c.
1654
)
June 29 –
Antoine Thomas
, Belgian Jesuit astronomer in China (born
1644
)
June 30 –
Edward Lhuyd
, Welsh naturalist (born
1660
)
October 17 –
François Mauriceau
,
French
obstetrician
(born
1637
)
References
[
edit
]
^
Pain, Stephanie (7 February 2009).
"1709: the year that Europe froze"
.
New Scientist
.
^
Luterbacher, Jürg; Dietrich, Daniel; Xoplaki, Elena; Grosjean, Martin; Wanner, Heinz (2004). "European Seasonal and Annual Temperature Variability, Trends, and Extremes Since 1500".
Science
.
303
(5663): 1499–1503.
Bibcode
:
2004Sci...303.1499L
.
doi
:
10.1126/science.1093877
.
PMID
15001774
.
^
Mott, R. A. (5 January 1957). "The earliest use of coke for ironmaking".
The Gas World, coking section supplement
.
145
: 7–18.
^
Raistrick, Arthur (1953).
Dynasty of Ironfounders: the Darbys and Coalbrookdale
. London: Longmans, Green. p. 34.
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
292
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ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
Rees, Nigel
(1987).
Why Do We Say ...?
.
ISBN
0-7137-1944-3
.
^
"The History of Umbrellas"
. Oakthrift Corporation. Archived from
the original
on 2013-09-02
. Retrieved
2011-12-22
.
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