1719 in science
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The year 1719 in science
and technology
involved some significant events some of which are enumerated here.
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
involved some significant events some of which are enumerated here.
Botany
- Johann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jacob Dillen Dillenius was a German botanist.Dillen was born at Darmstadt and was educated at the University of Giessen, where he wrote several botanical papers for the Ephemerides naturae curiosorum, and printed, in 1719, his Catalogus plantarum sponte circa Gissam nascentium, illustrated...
publishes Catalogus plantarum sponte circa Gissam nascentium.
Births
- January 23 - John LandenJohn LandenJohn Landen was an English mathematician,He was born at Peakirk near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, and died at Milton in the same county...
, mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
(d. 17901790 in scienceThe year 1790 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Astronomy:* Armagh Observatory founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh.-Biology:...
) - August 4 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, geologistGeologistA geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...
(d. 17671767 in scienceThe year 1767 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Agriculture:* Arthur Young publishes The farmer's letters to the people of England, containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman .....
) - August 20 - Christian Mayer, astronomerAstronomerAn astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
(d. 17831783 in scienceThe year 1783 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Aviation:* June 5 - The Montgolfier brothers send up at Annonay, near Lyon, a 900 m linen hot air balloon as a public demonstration...
) - September 27 - Abraham Gotthelf KästnerAbraham Gotthelf KästnerAbraham Gotthelf Kästner was a German mathematician and epigrammatist.He was known in his professional life for writing textbooks and compiling encyclopedias rather than for original research. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was one of his doctoral students, and admired the man greatly. He became...
, mathematician (d. 18001800 in scienceThe year 1800 in science and technology included many significant events.-Astronomy:* The central star of the Ring Nebula is discovered by Fredrich von Hahn: the central star is a white dwarf star with a temperature of between 100000 and 120000 K....
) - October 20 - Gottfried AchenwallGottfried AchenwallGottfried Achenwall was a German philosopher, historian, economist, jurist and statistician. He is counted among the inventors of statistics.-Biography:...
, statisticianStatisticianA statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...
(d. 17721772 in scienceThe year 1772 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Cartography:* Johann Heinrich Lambert publishes seven new map projections, including the Lambert conformal conic, Transverse Mercator and Lambert azimuthal equal area.-Chemistry:...
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Deaths
- January 12 - John FlamsteedJohn FlamsteedSir John Flamsteed FRS was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. He catalogued over 3000 stars.- Life :Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire, England, the only son of Stephen Flamsteed...
, astronomer (b. 16461646 in scienceThe year 1646 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Technology:* Pascal's Law, a law of hydrostatics is developed, stating that, in a perfect fluid, the pressure exerted on it anywhere is transmitted equally.-Publications:...
) - November 8 - Michel RolleMichel RolleMichel Rolle was a French mathematician. He is best known for Rolle's theorem , and he deserves to be known as the co-inventor in Europe of Gaussian elimination .-Life:...
, mathematician (b. 16521652 in scienceThe year 1652 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Publications:* Nicholas Culpeper publishes his herbal, The English Physitian, or, An astrologo-physical discourse on the vulgar herbs of this nation, being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in...
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