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Overview of the events of 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 .
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Botany
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
Geology
crystallisation of molten
lava .
Mathematics
Medicine
November 30 – Sir John Pringle presents "A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners" to the
Royal Society of
London , commending and publicising Captain
Cook 's methods for prevention of
scurvy at sea.
Publication of observations of epidemic diseases in Normandy , based on Hippocrates' table of epidemics by Louis Lépecq de La Clôture .[2]
Technology
Awards
Births
February 4 – Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus , German naturalist (died 1837 )
February 14 – )
March 27 – Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel , French botanist and politician (died 1854 )
April 1 – Sophie Germain , French mathematician (died 1831 )
May 17 – Amos Eaton , American naturalist and pioneer of science education (died 1842 )
June 1 – Giuseppe Zamboni , Italian Catholic priest and physicist (died 1846 )
June 12 – Karl Friedrich Burdach , German physiologist (died 1847 )
July 16
July 22 – Etheldred Benett , English geologist (died 1845 )
July 26 – Pierre Fouquier , French physician (died 1850 )
August 2 – Friedrich Stromeyer , German chemist , discoverer of cadmium (died 1835 )
August 6 – Amedeo Avogadro , Piedmontese chemist (died 1856 )
October 4 – Mariano Lagasca , Spanish botanist (died 1839 )
October 13 – Peter Barlow , English mathematician (died 1862 )
November 14 – Henri Dutrochet , French physician (died 1847 )
November 18 - Mauro Ruscóni , Italian physician and zoologist (died 1849 )[5]
December 3 – Nicolas Charles Seringe , French physician and botanist (died 1858 )
December 31 – Johann Spurzheim , German physician (died 1832 )[6]
Deaths
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