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1777 in science
The year
1777 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Exploration
March âÂÂ
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 âÂÂ1.
Technology
probable date
âÂÂ
Thomas Arnold
of
London
produces the first watch ("Arnold 36") to be called a
chronometer
.
Awards
Copley Medal
:
John Mudge
Births
February 12 âÂÂ
Bernard Courtois
,
French
chemist (died
1838
)
April 30 âÂÂ
Carl Friedrich Gauss
,
German
mathematician (died
1855
)
May 4 âÂÂ
Louis Jacques Thénard
, French chemist (died
1857
)
May 18 âÂÂ
John George Children
,
English
chemist, mineralogist and entomologist (died
1852
)
August 14 âÂÂ
Hans Christian ÃÂrsted
,
Danish
physicist (died
1851
)
Deaths
September 22 âÂÂ
John Bartram
, naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany" (born
1699
)
September 25 âÂÂ
Johann Heinrich Lambert
,
Swiss
polymath
(born
1728
)
December 7 âÂÂ
Albrecht von Haller
, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born
1708
)
Celia Grillo Borromeo
,
Italian
scientist and
mathematician
(born
1684
)
References