1788 in science
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The year 1788 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- December 21 – Caroline Herschel discovers the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet.
Biology
- 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
- 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
- Lagrange's Mécanique analytique is published in Paris, introducing Lagrangian mechanics.
Technology
- 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
Births
- March 7 – Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (died 1878)
- March 22 – Pierre Joseph Pelletier, French chemist (died 1842)
- May 10 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (died 1827)
- July 23 – Prideaux John Selby, English ornithologist (died 1867)
- October 14 – Edward Sabine, Anglo Irish physicist, astronomer and explorer (died 1883)
- December 21 – Thomas Southwood Smith, English physician and sanitary reformer (died 1861)
Deaths
- April 16 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (born 1707)
- May 8 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-Austrian naturalist (born 1723)
- approx. date – Moses Harris, English entomologist and engraver (born 1730)
References
- ↑ 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 (London) 78: 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 (Southern Appalachian Botanical Society) 72 (3): 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.
- ↑ 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.