1785 in science

The year 1785 in science and technology involved some significant events.

List of years in science (table)

Astronomy

Aviation

Biology

Earth sciences

Exploration

Mathematics

Medicine

  • William Withering publishes An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses.
  • London Hospital Medical College opens as England's first chartered medical school.

Technology

Awards

Births

Deaths

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References

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  3. Evans, Oliver; Evans, Thomas Ellicott Cadwallader (1848). The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide (12th ed.). Lea & Blanchard. p. 204.
  4. Thomson, Ross (2009). Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Invention in the United States 1790-1865. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9141-0.
  5. Troy, Rosemary; Wood, Graydon (June 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Greenbank Historic Area". National Park Service.
  6. Roe, Joseph Wickham (1916), English and American Tool Builders, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, LCCN 16011753. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (LCCN 27-24075); and by Lindsay Publications, Inc., Bradley, Illinois, (ISBN 978-0-917914-73-7)..
  7. "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
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