1789 in science explained
The year 1789 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Anatomy
- Antonio Scarpa publishes Anatomicæ disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu, a classic treatise on the hearing and olfactory organs.[1]
Astronomy
Botany
Chemistry
Exploration
Mathematics
Medicine
Technology
Zoology
- Swiss naturalist François Huber devises the "leaf hive" for the cultivation of honey bees.
Awards
Births
Deaths
Notes and References
- Benjamin Ward. Richardson. Antonio Scarpa, F.R.S., and Surgical Anatomy. The Asclepiad. 1886. 4. 16. 128–157. 2008-06-10. Longmans, Green and Co.. London.
- William. Herschel. Account of the Discovery of a Sixth and Seventh Satellite of the Planet Saturn; with Remarks on the Construction of its Ring, its Atmosphere, its Rotation on an Axis, and its spheroidical Figure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London. 80. 1 January 1790. 1–20. 10.1098/rstl.1790.0001. free.
- Web site: Telescopium Herschelii. Star Tales. Ian Ridpath. Ridpath. Ian. 2016-03-08.
- Jussieu, De . 15 . 593–4.
- Géorge . Vega . Détermination de la Demi-Circonférence d'un Cercle . Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae . 9 . 1789-08-20 . . . 2012-01-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120204040635/http://www.southernct.edu/~sandifer/Ed/History/Preprints/Talks/Jurij%20Vega/Vega%20math%20script.pdf . 2012-02-04 .
- Book: Forbes, Thomas Rogers. Surgeons at the Bailey: English Forensic Medicine to 1878. Yale University Press. New Haven. 1985. 978-0-300-03338-0. 7.
- Web site: Copley Medal British scientific award . Encyclopedia Britannica . 21 July 2020 . en.