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Archaeology
Technology
Sustainable energy research
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Governance and policy studies
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The year
1830 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
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]
March 16 – Great Comet of 1830 (C/1830 F1, 1830 I) first observed in
Mauritius
.
Johann Heinrich Mädler
and
Wilhelm Beer
produce the first map of the surface of Mars.
Biology
[
edit
]
Frontispiece of Lyell's
Principles of Geology
Charles Bell
publishes his
Nervous System of the Human Body
.
William Jackson Hooker
commences publication of
The British Flora
.
Exploration
[
edit
]
October 14 –
HMS
Beagle
returns to England from her first voyage, a
hydrographic
survey of the
Patagonia
and
Tierra del Fuego
regions of South America.
Southern Ocean Expedition
–
John Biscoe
sets out from England on an expedition to find new seal-hunting grounds in the
Southern Ocean
.
[1]
Geology
[
edit
]
Charles Lyell
publishes the first volume of his
Principles of Geology
, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation
.
Medicine
[
edit
]
Thomas Southwood Smith
publishes the standard textbook
A Treatise on Fever
in
London
.
Approximate date – The chain
osteotome
, a form of
chainsaw
, is invented by German orthopaedist
Bernhard Heine
.
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
Technology
[
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]
July 13 –
John Ruggles
is granted
United States
patent
No. 1
, for applying
rack railway
equipment to the "Locomotive steam-engine for rail and other roads".
August 31 –
Edwin Budding
is granted a
United Kingdom
patent for the
lawnmower
.
Aeneas Coffey
is granted a United Kingdom patent for an improved
column still
.
Eaton Hodgkinson
publishes his pioneering paper on the optimum
cross section
for
cast iron
structural beams
.
[6]
Stephen H. Long designs the
Long truss
wooden bridge.
Institutions
[
edit
]
Geographical Society of London
established.
[7]
Publications
[
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]
Charles Babbage
publishes
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes
.
Auguste Comte
begins publication of his
Course of Positive Philosophy
(Cours de Philosophie Positive)
.
Awards
[
edit
]
Copley Medal
: not awarded
[8]
Births
[
edit
]
March 5 –
Étienne-Jules Marey
(died
1904
), French
physiologist
.
March 5 –
Charles Wyville Thomson
(died
1882
), Scottish
marine biologist
.
April 21 –
Clémence Royer
(died
1902
), French anthropologist.
May 10 –
François-Marie Raoult
(died
1901
), French
chemist
.
May 11 (April 29
O.S.
) –
Emanoil Bacaloglu
(died
1891
), Romanian
polymath
.
August 19 –
Lothar Meyer
(died
1895
), German chemist.
September 7 –
Mary Treat
(died
1923
), American naturalist.
October 24 –
Marianne North
(died
1890
), English
botanist
.
November 20 –
Sigismond Jaccoud
(died
1913
), Swiss
physician
.
Deaths
[
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]
March 2 –
Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
(born
1755
), German
physician
,
anatomist
,
paleontologist
and
inventor
.
March 29 –
James Rennell
(born
1742
), English
cartographer
and
oceanographer
.
May 16 –
Joseph Fourier
(born
1768
), French
mathematician
.
August 24 –
Louis Pierre Vieillot
(born
1748
), French
ornithologist
.
Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi
(born
1760
), Italian botanist.
References
[
edit
]
^
"Antarctic History, antarcticaonline.com"
. Archived from
the original
on 10 August 2007
. Retrieved
2007-08-19
.
^
Heine, Bernhard (1834-09-27).
Wakley, Thomas
(ed.).
"New Instrument Called the Osteotome Designed for the Ablation of Bones"
.
The Lancet
.
1
. London: 127–133.
^
Schullian, Dorothy M.; Seufert, Wolf D. (1980).
"The Chain Osteotome by Heine"
.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
.
XXXV
(4): 454–459.
doi
:
10.1093/jhmas/XXXV.4.454
.
PMID
7005321
.
^
Peltier, Leonard F. (1993).
Orthopedics: History and Iconography
. Norman Publishing. pp. 37–.
ISBN
9780930405472
. Retrieved
2012-12-02
.
^
Tillmanns, Hermann (1895).
The principles of surgery and surgical pathology: general rules governing operations and the application of dressings
. D. Appleton & Company. pp.
84
–
. Retrieved
2012-12-02
.
^
"Theoretical and Experimental Researches to Ascertain the strength and best forms of Iron beams".
Memoirs of the
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
2nd ser.
5
:407-544.
^
"History of the Society"
. Royal Geographical Society
. Retrieved
2023-02-25
.
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
22 July
2020
.
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