1807 in science
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The year 1807 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Astronomy
- March 29 – H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid which Carl Friedrich Gauss names Vesta.[1]
Chemistry
- Potassium and sodium are isolated by Sir Humphry Davy.
- The use of fulminate in firearms is patented by the Rev. Alexander John Forsyth of Scotland.[2]
Geology
- The Geological Society is founded in London; among the more prominent founders are William Babington, James Parkinson, Humphry Davy and George Bellas Greenough.
Mathematics
- William Wallace proves that any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable, later known as the Bolyai–Gerwien theorem.[3]
Medicine
- Samuel Hahnemann first introduces the term 'homeopathy' in an essay, "Indications of the Homeopathic Employment of Medicines in Ordinary Practice", published in Versammlung der Hufelandische medicinisch-chirurgischen Gesellschaft.[4]
Technology
- July 20 – French brothers Claude and Nicéphore Niépce receive a patent for their Pyréolophore, an early internal combustion engine, having demonstrated it powering a boat on the Saône.
- August 17 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat makes her first trip from New York to Albany.
- November 19 – English inventor Lionel Lukin launches the world's first sailing self-righting rescue life-boat, the Frances Anne, at Lowestoft.[5]
- William Cubitt patents self-regulating sails for windmills.[6]
- Henry Maudslay patents an improved table engine.
- William Hyde Wollaston patents the camera lucida.[7]
Zoology
- April 21 – The Tasmanian devil is first described, by George Prideaux Robert Harris.[8]
Publications
- Alexander von Humboldt's Le Voyage aux Régions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, par Alexandre de Humboldt et Aimé Bonpland begins publication.
- Thomas Young's A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts published.
Awards
Births
- May 28 – Louis Agassiz, zoologist and geologist (died 1873)
- November 14 – Auguste Laurent, chemist (died 1853)
Deaths
- April 4 – Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, French astronomer (born 1732)
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