Английская Википедия:1823 in science
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The year 1823 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
- Olbers' paradox is described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers.
- Cambridge Observatory established in England.[1]
- December 29 – Great Comet of 1823 first observed.
Chemistry
- June 17 – Charles Macintosh patents a method of rubberizing fabric to waterproof it.[2]
Exploration
- February 20 – James Weddell's expedition to Antarctica reaches latitude 74°15' S and longitude 34°16'45" W, the most southerly position that will be attained for more than 80 years.
Mathematics
- János Bolyai completes a treatise on parallel lines that he calls absolute geometry, although it will not be published until 1832.
Medicine
- After August – Philipp Franz von Siebold begins to introduce Western medicine to Japan.
- October 5 – The Lancet founded by Thomas Wakley.
- Theodric Romeyn Beck publishes the first significant American book on forensic medicine, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence in Albany, New York.
Paleontology
- January 23 – In a cave on the Gower Peninsula of Wales, William Buckland inspects the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial. The bones, discovered on December 21 last, are with those of the woolly mammoth, proving that the two had coexisted.[3]
- December 10 – On the Jurassic Coast of southern England, Mary Anning finds the first complete Plesiosaurus skeleton.[4]
Physics
- William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet.
Technology
- December 6 – English inventor Samuel Brown obtains his first patent for a hydrogen fuelled compressionless atmospheric gas vacuum engine,[5] the first internal combustion engine to be applied industrially.[6]
- First use of a Fresnel lens in a lighthouse optic, at the Cordouan lighthouse on the Gironde estuary.[7]
- First permanent wire cable suspension bridge, Pont Saint Antoine in Geneva, by Guillaume Henri Dufour, of two 40 m spans.[8]
- First cast iron framed greenhouse erected at Wollaton Park in England as a Camellia house.
- French officer Henri-Joseph Paixhans develops the Paixhans gun, the first naval artillery to fire explosive shells.
Publications
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences first published.
Awards
Births
- January 3 – Robert Whitehead (died 1905), English inventor of the self-propelled torpedo.
- January 8 – Alfred Russel Wallace (died 1913), British naturalist who devises the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin.
- February 3 – Spencer Fullerton Baird (died 1887), American ornithologist and ichthyologist.
- March 21 – Jules Émile Planchon (died 1888), French botanist.
- December 22 – Jean Henri Fabre (died 1915), French entomologist.
- December 23 – Thomas W. Evans (died 1897), American-born dentist.[10]
Deaths
- January 26 – Edward Jenner (born 1749), English inventor of vaccine.
- January 27 – Charles Hutton (born 1737), English mathematician.
- February 9 – Agnes Ibbetson (born 1757), English plant physiologist.
- September 23 – Matthew Baillie (born 1761), British pathologist.
References
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