1784 in science

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The year 1784 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

Biology

Chemistry

History of science

  • Publication of David Bourgeois' Recherches sur l'art de voler, depuis la plus haute antiquité jusque'a ce jour in Paris, the earliest work on the history of flight.

Mathematics

  • Carl Friedrich Gauss, at the age of seven, pioneers the field of summation with the formula summing 1:n as (n(n+1))/2.

Medicine

Paleontology

  • The first description of a Pterodactylus fossil is made by Cosimo Alessandro Collini, although he is unable to determine what kind of creature it is.[3][4][5]

Physics

Surveying

Technology

Awards

Births

Deaths

References

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  8. No. 1432.
  9. Gazette d'Amsterdam 25 June 1784; Journal des sçavans November 1784 pp. 760-762.
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