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1773 in science
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The year
1773 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
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Astronomy
2
Chemistry
3
Exploration
4
Linguistics
5
Medicine
6
Awards
7
Births
8
Deaths
9
References
Astronomy
October 13 -
French
astronomer
Charles Messier
discovers the
Whirlpool Galaxy
(pictured)
, an
interacting
,
grand-design
spiral galaxy
located at a distance of approximately 23 million
light-years
in the
constellation
Canes Venatici
.
Chemistry
Hilaire Rouelle
discovers
urea
.
Exploration
January 17 - Captain
James Cook
becomes the first European explorer to cross the
Antarctic Circle
.
Linguistics
Scottish
judge
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
, begins publication of
Of the Origin and Progress of Language
, a contribution to
evolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment
.
Medicine
Medical Society of London
founded by
John Coakley Lettsom
.
Awards
Copley Medal
:
John Walsh
John Harrison
receives the
Longitude prize
for his invention of the first
marine chronometer
.
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Births
January 29 -
Friedrich Mohs
, mineralogist (died
1839
)
May 19 -
Arthur Aikin
, chemist, mineralogist (died
1854
)
June 13 -
Thomas Young
, physicist (died
1829
)
July 23 -
Thomas Brisbane
, astronomer (died
1860
)
August 23 -
Abraham Colles
, surgeon (died
1843
)
December 21 -
Robert Brown
, botanist (died
1858
)
December 27 -
George Cayley
, pioneer of heavier-than-air flight (died
1857
)
Deaths
July 23 -
George Edwards
, naturalist (born
1693
)
References
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"Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800"
.
http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800
. Retrieved 2007-08-25
.