1825 in science
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The year 1825 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Pierre-Simon Laplace completes his study of gravitation, the stability of the solar system, tides, the precession of the equinoxes, the libration of the Moon, and Saturn's rings in Mecanique Celeste
[edit] Chemistry
- Michael Faraday isolates benzene
- Hans Christian Ørsted produces metallic aluminium in an impure form
[edit] Mathematics
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy presents the Cauchy integral theorem for general integration paths -- he assumes the function being integrated has a continuous derivative
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy introduces the theory of residues in complex analysis
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Adrien-Marie Legendre prove Fermat's last theorem for n = 5
- André-Marie Ampère discovers Stokes' theorem
[edit] Paleontology
- Georges Cuvier proposes his catastrophe theory as the cause of extinctions of large groups of animals
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire identifies Cuvier's fossil `crocodile´ as a teleosaurus
[edit] Technology
- September 27 - The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- May 4 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley (d. 1895), English biologist.
[edit] Deaths
- October 6 - Bernard Germain Etienne (b. 1756), naturalist.
