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The year
1790 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Armagh Observatory
, founded in Ireland by
Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby
,
Archbishop of Armagh
, begins to function.
Biology
English
ornithologist
John Latham
publishes his
Index Ornithologicus
, including a scientific description of the
black swan
.
English botanical illustrator
James Sowerby
begins publication of his
English Botany
, with text by
James E. Smith
.
Goethe
publishes
Metamorphosis of Plants
.
Chemistry
July 31 –
Samuel Hopkins
of
Vermont
is granted a
patent
for a
potash
production technique, the first issued under the
1st United States Congress
's
Patent Act of 1790
.
[1]
Publication in
Montpellier
of
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
's
Élémens de chimie
, in which he coins the word
nitrogen
(
nitrogène
).
Adair Crawford
, working with
William Cruickshank
, proposes the existence of the
alkaline earth metal
located near
Strontian
in Scotland which will later be isolated at
strontium
.
[2]
[3]
Physiology and medicine
First recorded case of
artificial insemination
when British surgeon
John Hunter
helps impregnate a linen draper's wife.
[4]
[5]
Technology
January 30 –
Henry Greathead
's
Original
rescue life-boat
is tested on the
River Tyne
in
England
.
[6]
Awards
Copley Medal
: Not awarded
[7]
Births
February 3 –
Gideon Mantell
, English
paleontologist
(died
1852
)
March 12 –
John Frederic Daniell
, English
chemist
and
physicist
(died
1845
)
May 23 –
Jules Dumont d'Urville
,
French
explorer (died
1842
)
May 30 –
John Herapath
, English physicist (died
1868
)
July 1 –
George Everest
,
Welsh
surveyor and geographer (died
1866
)
October 25 –
Robert Stirling
,
Scottish
inventor (died
1878
)
November 17 –
August Ferdinand Möbius
,
German
mathematician
(died 1868)
December 9 –
Friederike Lienig
, Latvian entomologist (d.
1855
)
December 19 –
William Edward Parry
, English
Arctic
explorer (died
1855
)
Deaths
February 5 –
William Cullen
, Scottish
physician
and chemist (born
1710
)
[8]
March 22 –
Anthony Addington
, English physician (born
1713
)
April 17 –
Benjamin Franklin
,
American
statesman and polymath, known for his experiments with
electricity
(born
1706
)
July 17 –
Johann II Bernoulli
, Swiss mathematician (born 1710)
References
^
"Patent Number: US0X0000001"
. Archived from
the original
on 2016-04-15.
^
Weeks, Mary Elvira
(1932). "The discovery of the elements: X. The alkaline earth metals and magnesium and cadmium".
Journal of Chemical Education
.
9
(6): 1046–1057.
Bibcode
:
1932JChEd...9.1046W
.
doi
:
10.1021/ed009p1046
.
^
Partington, J. R. (1942). "The early history of strontium".
Annals of Science
.
5
(2): 157.
doi
:
10.1080/00033794200201411
.
^
"Artificial Insemination of Married Women (Hansard, 26 February 1958)"
.
api.parliament.uk
. Retrieved
2020-03-02
.
^
Ombelet, W.; Van Robays, J. (2015).
"Artificial insemination history: hurdles and milestones"
.
Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn
.
7
(2): 137–143.
ISSN
2032-0418
.
PMC
4498171
.
PMID
26175891
.
^
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0
.
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
21 July
2020
.
^
"William Cullen | Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh"
.
www.rcpe.ac.uk
. Retrieved
3 December
2020
.
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