1822 in science
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The year 1822 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Geology
- Georges Cuvier establishes new standards and methods in stratigraphy and paleontology.
- Gideon Mantell discovers the first fossil of the iguanodon.
- John Phillips and William Conybeare identify the Carboniferous Period.
- Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy identifies the Cretaceous Period. He also proposes the Jurassic System.
Mathematics
- July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a "difference engine", a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions. Construction of an operational version will proceed under British Government sponsorship 1823–32 but it will never be completed.[1]
- Karl Feuerbach describes the nine-point circle of a triangle.[2]
- William Farish of the University of Cambridge publishes a systematization of the rules for isometric drawing.[3][4][5]
Medicine
- United States Army surgeon William Beaumont pioneers human gastric endoscopy on Alexis St. Martin.[6]
Technology
- May 23 – HMS Comet launched at Deptford Dockyard in the United Kingdom, the first steamboat commissioned by the Royal Navy.
- June 10 – The Aaron Manby crosses the English Channel, making her the first seagoing iron steamboat.
- French civil engineer Louis Vicat completes construction of a concrete viaduct across the Dordogne at Souillac, Lot.[7]
Events
- September 11 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632) is permitted by the Roman Catholic Church to be published.
Awards
- June 12 – Edward Banks knighted, the first such honour for work in civil engineering.[8]
- Copley Medal: William Buckland
Births
- January 2 – Rudolf Clausius, physicist (died 1888)
- January 6 – Heinrich Schliemann, archaeologist (died 1890)
- February 16 – Sir Francis Galton, explorer, biologist (died 1911)
- April 18 – August Heinrich Petermann, cartographer (died 1878)
- June 10 – Lydia White Shattuck, botanist (died 1889)
- July 22 – Gregor Mendel, geneticist (died 1884)
- October 13 (O.S. October 1) – Lev Tsenkovsky, biologist (died 1887)
- December 27 – Louis Pasteur, biologist (died 1895)
Deaths
- February 23 – Johann Matthäus Bechstein, naturalist (born 1757)
- June 23 – René Just Haüy, mineralogist (born 1743)
- August 13 – Jean-Robert Argand, mathematician (born 1768)
- August 25 – William Herschel, astronomer (born 1738)
- November 6 – Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist (born 1748)
References
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