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Overview of the events of 1830 in science

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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

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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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* Copley Medal: not awarded[8]

## Births

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* 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

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1. ^ "Antarctic History, antarcticaonline.com". Archived from the original on 10 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ Peltier, Leonard F. (1993). Orthopedics: History and Iconography. Norman Publishing. pp. 37–. ISBN 9780930405472. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ "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.
7. ^ "History of the Society". Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
8. ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2020.

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