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The year
1788 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
[
edit
]
December 21 –
Caroline Herschel
discovers the
periodic comet
35P/Herschel–Rigollet
.
Biology
[
edit
]
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.
[1]
[2]
James E. Smith
founds the
Linnean Society of London
.
Utamaro
publishes
Ehon Mushi Erami
("Picture Book of Crawling Creatures") in
Japan
with color illustrations.
[3]
Thomas Walter
publishes
Flora Caroliniana
, the first
flora
of
North America
to follow
Linnaean taxonomy
.
[4]
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
[
edit
]
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
.
[5]
Mechanics
[
edit
]
Lagrange
's
Mécanique analytique
is published in
Paris
, introducing
Lagrangian mechanics
.
Medicine
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
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
.
[6]
[7]
Awards
[
edit
]
Copley Medal
:
Charles Blagden
[8]
Births
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
^
Jenner, Edward (1788-03-13).
"Observations on the Natural History of the Cuckoo, in a Letter to John Hunter, Esq. F.R.S."
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
.
78
. London: 219–237.
doi
:
10.1098/rstl.1788.0016
. Retrieved
2013-05-08
.
^
Sealy, Spencer G.; Guigueno, Mélanie F. (2011).
"Cuckoo chicks evicting their nest mates: coincidental observations by Edward Jenner in England and Antoine Joseph Lottinger in France"
(PDF)
.
Archives of Natural History
.
38
: 220–228.
doi
:
10.3366/anh.2011.0030
.
ISSN
0260-9541
. Retrieved
2013-05-08
.
^
"Utamaro"
. Cambridge:
Fitzwilliam Museum
. Retrieved
2013-12-02
.
^
Ward, Daniel B. (2007).
"Scientific Note: Quercus sinuata Walter ... Rediscovered and Neotypified"
.
Castanea
.
72
(
3
). Southern Appalachian Botanical Society: 177–181.
doi
:
10.2179/0008-7475(2007)72[177:SNQSWH]2.0.CO;
2
. Retrieved
2011-04-05
.
^
Vol.
1
(
2
) pp. 209–304.
Theory of the Earth
.
Archived
July 29, 2003, at the
Wayback Machine
^
Harvey, W. S.; Downs-Rose, G. (1980).
William Symington, Inventor and Engine Builder
. London: Northgate Publishing.
ISBN
0-85298-443-X
.
^
Macleod, Innes; Neil, James (1988).
The Dalswinton steamboat 1788–1988
. Dumfries: Farries.
ISBN
0-948278-08-0
.
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
21 July
2020
.
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