In 1770 , various scientific and technological events took place, some of which are presented below.
| 1770 in science |
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| 1760 • 1761 • 1762 • 1763 • 1764 • 1765 • 1766 |
| 1767 • 1768 • 1769 • 1770 • 1771 • 1772 • 1773 |
| 1774 • 1775 • 1776 • 1777 • 1778 • 1779 • 1780 |
| Other events in 1770 |
Content
- 1 Events
- 2 Awards and Prizes
- 3 born
- 4 passed away
- 5 See also
- 6 notes
Events
- April - English captain James Cook , visiting the eastern shores of Australia , declared this continent the possession of the British crown.
- July 1 — comet D / 1770 L1 , closest to Earth in the history of observational astronomy, passed 2.2 million km from Earth [1] .
- September 10-19 - a long extreme magnetic storm recorded in 111 historical documents. Aurora for more than a week was observed in areas up to 30 degrees latitude [2] .
- Richard Edgeworth invented the caterpillar mover .
- The Lagrange theorem on the sum of four squares is proved.
Awards and Prizes
- Copley Medal awarded to the British archaeologist and volcanologist William Hamilton .
Born
- March 11 - William Haskinson , an English politician and the first person to die under the wheels of a train ( 1830 ).
- April 9 - Thomas Seebeck , German physicist.
- August 27 - Hegel , German philosopher.
Died
- September 9 - Bernard Albinus , German anatomist and teacher , professor , honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1753), [3] member of the Royal Society of London (1764).
- December 5 - James Stirling , Scottish mathematician.
See also
► 1770 in science
Notes
- ↑ Two of the comet se nepisava kem Zemyata. (bulg.)
- ↑ Hisashi Hayakawa et al. A prolonged extreme magnetic storm in 1770, discovered according to historical documents . Library of electronic preprints on astrophysics astro-ph (2017.11.02).
- ↑ Profile of Bernard Siegfried Albinus (Weiss) on the official website of the RAS