Overview of the events of 1807 in science
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The year 1807 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Chemistry
Geology
Mathematics
Medicine
- Samuel Hahnemann first introduces the term 'homeopathy' in an essay, "Indications of the Homeopathic Employment of Medicines in Ordinary Practice", published in Versammlung der Hufelandische medicinisch-chirurgischen Gesellschaft.[4]
- British Army surgeon John Vetch describes the keratoconjunctivitis ("Egyptian ophthalmia") suffered by troops returned from service overseas;[5] he identifies it as epidemic.[6]
Technology
Zoology
Publications
- Alexander von Humboldt's Le Voyage aux Régions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799–1804, par Alexandre de Humboldt et Aimé Bonpland begins publication.
- Thomas Young's A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts published.
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Deaths
References
- ^ "4 Vesta". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ "Rifled Breech Loader". globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ^ Stewart, Ian (1996). From Here to Infinity (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-19-283202-3.
- ^ Gumpert, Martin (1945). Hahnemann: the Adventurous Career of a Medical Rebel (English-language ed.). New York: Fischer. p. 130.
- ^ Vetch, John (1807). An Account of the Ophthalmia. London: Longman.
- ^ Feibel, Robert M. (1983). "John Vetch and the Egyptian Ophthalmia". Survey of Ophthalmology. History of Ophthalmology. 28: 128–34.
- ^ Malster, Robert, ed. (2013). The Minute Books of the Suffolk Humane Society... and the world's first sailing lifeboat. Suffolk Records Society, vol. 56. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-805-0.
- ^ Brown, Peter. "Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861)". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
- ^ Hammond, John; Austin, Jill (1987). The camera lucida in art and science. Taylor & Francis.
- ^ Harris, G. P. (1807). "Description of two new Species of Didelphis from Van Diemen's Land". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 9: 174–78. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1818.tb00336.x. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.