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The year 1775 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Biology
Chemistry
- May 25 – Joseph Priestley's account of his isolation of oxygen in the form of a gas ("dephlogisticated air") is read to the Royal Society of London.[2]
- Torbern Bergman's De attractionibus electivis ("A Dissertation on Elective Attractions") is published, containing the largest tables of chemical affinity ever published.
Exploration
- July 30 – 3-year second voyage of James Cook completed, the first eastabout global circumnavigation, during which the Antarctic Circle has been crossed three times, Terra Australis shown to be a myth, and Larcum Kendall's K1 chronometer demonstrated to be a reliable timekeeper for the purpose of calculating longitude.
Mathematics
- quadratic forms.
- First Stanhope Demonstrator, a mechanical device to demonstrate and solve problems in logic, is produced by English aristocrat Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope.[3]
Medicine
- English surgeon Percivall Pott finds the first occupational link to cancer, contributing to the science of epidemiology.
- German physician Melchior Adam Weikard anonymously publishes the textbook Der Philosophische Arzt including the earliest description of symptoms resembling attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Natural history
- February 21 – La Specola, Florence's Museum of Zoology and Natural History, opens to the public.
- Johan Christian Fabricius publishes his Systema entomologiæ.
- Peter Forsskål's Descriptiones Animalium: Avium, amphiborum, insectorum, vermium quæ in itinere orientali (containing early observations on bird migration) and Flora Ægyptiaco-Arabica sive descriptiones plantarum quas per Ægyptum Inferiorem et Arabiam felicem detexit are published posthumously, edited by Carsten Niebuhr.[4]
Technology
- May 22 –
- Jacques-Constantin Périer operates a paddle steamer on the Seine, but it proves to be underpowered.[7]
- Alexander Cumming patents the S-trap in London, laying the foundations for the modern flush toilet.[8]
- confectioner Charles Spalding devises improvements to the diving bell, adding a system of balance-weights.[9]
- Pierre-Simon Girard, age 10, invents a water turbine.
- December 30 – compensation balance.[10]
- Approximate date – Thomas Mudge invents the detached lever escapement for clocks and watches.
- French Academy of Sciences made the statement that the academy "will no longer accept or deal with proposals concerning perpetual motion."[11]
Awards
Births
- January 22 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (died 1836)
- February 9 – Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (died 1856)
- May 10 – William Phillips, English geologist (died 1828)
- July 23 – Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician] (died 1812)
- September 30 – Robert Adrain, Irish-born mathematician (died 1843)
- November 19 – zoologist (died 1813)
Deaths
- March 3 – Richard Dunthorne, English astronomer (born 1711)
- May 1 – Israel Lyons, English mathematician and botanist (born 1739; died of measles)
- October 25 – Johan Maurits Mohr, Dutch astronomer (born 1716)
References
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- from the original on 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
...the first true logic machine, the Stanhope Demonstrator.
- ^ "The University of Copenhagen – A Danish centre of learning since 1479". Københavns Universitet. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
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- ^ "The Invention of the Steam Engine: The Life of James Watt. Part 4: The Steam Engine Gains Popularity". About.com Inventors. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
- ^ Spratt, H. Philip (1958). The Birth of the Steamboat. London. p. 35.
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- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.