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1776 In Science
The year 1776 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy * Lagrange publishes a paper on the stability of planetary orbits. Botany * William Withering publishes ''The Botanical Arrangement of all the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain'', the first flora in English based on Linnaean taxonomy. Chemistry * James Keir begins publication of ''A Dictionary of Chemistry'' in London, a translation into English of Pierre Macquer's ''Dictionnaire de chymie'' (1766). Exploration * July 12 – Captain James Cook sets off from Plymouth, England, in HMS ''Resolution'' on his third voyage, to the Pacific Ocean and Arctic. Geology * James Keir suggests that some rocks, such as those at the Giant's Causeway, might have been formed by the crystallisation of molten lava. Mathematics * Jean Baptiste Meusnier discovers the helicoid and announces Meusnier's theorem. Medicine * November 30 – Sir John Pringle presents "A discourse upon some late improvem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
