1777 in science
The year 1777 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Exploration
- March – Third voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain Cook discovers Mangaia and Atiu in the Cook Islands.
Mathematics
- Leonhard Euler introduces the symbol i to represent the square root of −1.[1]
Technology
- probable date – Thomas Arnold of London produces the first watch ("Arnold 36") to be called a chronometer.[2][3]
Awards
Births
- February 12 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist (died 1838)
- April 30 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (died 1855)
- May 4 – Louis Jacques Thénard, French chemist (died 1857)
- May 18 – John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist and entomologist (died 1852)
- August 14 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (died 1851)
Deaths
- September 22 – John Bartram, naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany" (born 1699)
- September 25 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss polymath (born 1728)
- December 7 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born 1708)
- Celia Grillo Borromeo, Italian scientist and mathematician (born 1684)
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References
- Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know. London: Quercus. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- An account kept during thirteen months in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich of the going of a pocket chronometer made on a new construction by John Arnold. London. 1780.
- "chronometer, n.". Oxford English Dictionary online version (2nd ed.). 1989. Retrieved 2012-03-09. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
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