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1882 In Science
The year 1882 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy * September – Great Comet of 1882 sighted. * December 6 – Transit of Venus, 1882. Biology * March 24 – Robert Koch announces his discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis, '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis''. * Élie Metchnikoff discovers phagocytosis. Chemistry * Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detects helium on Earth for the first time through its D3 spectral line when he analyzes the lava of Mount Vesuvius. Earth sciences * Clarence Dutton's ''Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District'' is published by the United States Geological Survey. Mathematics * June – German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes proof that is a transcendental number and that squaring the circle is consequently impossible. * December – Swedish mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler establishes the journal '' Acta Mathematica''. * Felix Klein first describes the Klei ... [...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] |
