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Overview of the events of 1795 in science
The year 1795 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Botany
Mathematics
Medicine
Metrology
April 7 – The
gram is decreed in France to be equal to "the absolute weight of a volume of water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the metre, at the temperature of melting ice."
[3]
Paleontology
Technology
Zoology
Publications
Awards
Births
January 6 –
Anselme Payen ,
French
chemist (died
1878 )
May 5 –
Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave , French
dermatologist (died
1877 )
June 24 –
Ernst Heinrich Weber ,
German
physician ,
psychologist (died
1878 )
June 30 –
Joseph Bienaimé Caventou , French chemist (died
1877 )
July 5 –
Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe , German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist (died
1880 )
July 10 –
Jean-Baptiste Guimet , French industrial chemist (died
1871 )
November 12 –
Thaddeus William Harris ,
American naturalist (died
1856 )
December 8 –
Peter Andreas Hansen ,
Danish
astronomer (died
1874 )
December 21
Deaths
January 21 –
Samuel Wallis , English navigator (born
1728 )
March 21 –
Giovanni Arduino ,
Italian
geologist (born
1714 )
May 6 –
Pieter Boddaert , Dutch physician and naturalist (born
1730 )
June 1 –
Pierre-Joseph Desault , French anatomist and surgeon (born
1744 )
June 9 –
François Chopart ,
French
surgeon (born
1743 )
June 17 –
Gilbert Romme , French politician and mathematician (born
1750 )
June 18 –
Marie Marguerite Bihéron , French anatomist (born
1719 )
June 24 –
William Smellie ,
Scottish
naturalist and encyclopedist (born
1740 )
July 3 –
Antonio de Ulloa ,
Spanish
explorer (born
1716 )
August 14 –
George Adams , English scientific instrument maker (born
1750 )
October 1 –
Robert Bakewell , English
agriculturalist and
geneticist (born
1725 )
December 28 –
Eugenio Espejo , Ecuadorian medical hygienist, lawyer and journalist (born
1747 )
References
^ Not published until
1809 .
^ Bown, Stephen R. (2003). Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail . Penguin Books Australia. p. 222.
^
"Decree on weights and measures" . 1795. Archived from
the original on 24 September 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2008 . Gramme , le poids absolu d'un volume d'eau pure égal au cube de la centième partie du mètre , et à la température de la glace fondante
^ McNeill, Ian (1972). Hydraulic Power . London: Longman.
ISBN
0-582-12797-1 .
^ Goodwin, Gordon (1891).
"Hunter, Henry" . In
Lee, Sidney (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Klyve, Dominic (Spring 2011).
"Euler's Letters to a German Princess:Betrayal and Translation" (PDF) . Opusculum . 3 (1). Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2013-10-21 .
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 21 July 2020 .