1765 in science
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The year 1765 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- February 8 – Nevil Maskelyne becomes Astronomer Royal in England.[1]
Technology
- May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser.[2]
- October 15 – Gribeauval system for manufacture of cannon introduced in France by royal decree.[3]
Zoology
- Saverio Manetti begins publication of his Storia naturale degli uccelli, trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornate ("Natural History of the Birds, treated systematically and adorned with copperplate engraving illustrations, in miniature and life-size") in Florence.
Awards
- Copley Medal: Not awarded
Births
- March 7 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (died 1833)
- November 14 – Robert Fulton, American engineer (died 1815)
- December 8 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (died 1825)
- June 4 – Takeshi Watanabe, Japanese swordmaker (died 1838)
Deaths
- April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist (born 1711)
- May 7 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician (born 1713)
- September – Richard Pococke, English anthropologist and explorer (born 1704)
- December 25 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian, natural scientist and pioneer in the field of electricity (born 1698)
