1768 in science

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The year 1768 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Biology

Caspar Friedrich Wolff begins publication of "De Formatione Intestinarum" in the Mémoires of The Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences (St. Petersburg), a significant work in the science of embryology.^[1]
Lazzaro Spallanzani challenges the spontaneous generation of cellular life.

March 17 - William Cookworthy is granted a patent for the manufacture of porcelain from kaolinite in England,^[3]

Leonhard Euler uses closed curves (which become known as Euler diagrams) to illustrate syllogistic reasoning.^[4]^[5]

^ Petrunkevitch, Alexander (June 1920). "Russia's Contribution to Science". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (New Haven) 23: 235.
^ "Genus: Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2010-07-07. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1617. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
^ "William Cookworthy 1705-80". Three Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol - The Story of Bristol Pottery and Porcelain. http://www.kalendar.demon.co.uk/cookworthy.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
^ Euler, L. (1768). Lettres à une Princesse d'Allemagne. St. Petersburg.
^ Baron, Margaret E. (May 1969). "A Note on The Historical Development of Logic Diagrams: Leibniz, Euler and Venn". The Mathematical Gazette (Mathematical Association) 53 (383): 113–125. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3614533. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
^ Mann, Ralph (2004). "Stone, Edward (1702–1768)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38014. Retrieved 2011-02-17. Subscription or UK public library membership required