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The year 1782 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Aviation
- December 14 – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly a hot air balloon; it floats nearly 2 km (1.2 mi).[1]
Biology
- Jesuit abbot Juan Ignacio Molina publishes Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del Chili[2] in Spain, the first account of the natural history of his native Chile, describing many species to science for the first time (e.g., Araucaria araucana).
Chemistry
- Telluride minerals are first discovered in a gold mine in Kleinschlatten, Transylvania (modern-day Zlatna, Romania) by Austrian mineralogist Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein.
- Winter 1782–83 – chemical changes (calculations based on Joseph Black's prior discovery of latent heat), marking the foundation of thermochemistry.
Medicine
- September – Nottingham General Hospital opens to patients in England.[3]
Physics
- Jean-Paul Marat publishes Recherches physiques sur l'électricité (Research into the Physics of Electricity)
- Giordano Riccati publishes experiments determining what will later be known as Young's modulus.[4]
Technology
- John Arnold patents his improvements in the construction of marine chronometers in Britain.[5]
Institutions
- Princess Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova is appointed Director of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences in Saint Petersburg.[6]
Awards
Births
- April 7 – Marie-Anne Libert, Belgian botanist (died 1865)
- June 3 – naturalist and explorer (died 1865)
- June 16 – geometer (died 1862)
Deaths
- January 18 – Sir )
- March 17 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician (born 1700)
- May 16 – botanist (born 1733)
- May 20 – William Emerson, English mathematician (born 1701)
- Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Swedish botanist (born 1743)
- unknown date – Christine Kirch, German astronomer (born 1696)
References
- ISBN 0-691-08321-5.
- ^ Translated into English as The Geographical, Natural and Civil History of Chili, in two volumes. Volume I,Volume II.
- ^ Bittiner, John Bruce; Lowe, David (1990). Nottingham General Hospital - Personal Reflections (PDF). Nottingham: Special Trustees for Nottingham University Hospitals. p. 8.
- ^ Riccati, G. (1782). "Delle vibrazioni sonore dei cilindri". Memoria di Matematica e di Fisica della Società Italiana del Scienze. 1: 444–525.
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- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 844.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.