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1765 in science

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The year 1765 in science and technology involved several significant events.

Astronomy

  • February 8 – Nevil Maskelyne becomes Astronomer Royal in England.

Technology

  • May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser.
  • October 15 – Gribeauval system for manufacture of cannon introduced in France by royal decree.
  • Timișoara Fortress construction completed by the Habsburg Empire.

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)

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)

References

References

  1. Chartrand, René. (2003). "Napoleon's Guns 1792-1815". Osprey Publishing.
  2. "Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award".
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