🔎 1761 in Science – Definition and Explanations

introduction

events

Astronomy (Astronomy is the science of observing the stars, seeking an explanation…)

• June 6 – the first Venus transit (The transit of Venus in front of the Sun occurs during the transit of Venus…) since Edmond Haley (Edmund (or Edmund) Halley (October 29, 1656, Haggerston, London borough of Hackney…) Bring up the idea that him note (Observation is the act of vigilant following phenomena without wanting to see them…) Can be used to determine the distance from Land (Earth is the third planet in the solar system in order of distance…) in sun (The sun (sol in Latin, Helios or Ήλιος in Greek) is the star…). Joseph Nicholas Delisle organizes a network (A computer network is a group of equipment linked together to exchange information…) 62 transit control stations. Contributed to this project: Nathaniel bliss (Bliss is an ideographic language developed by Carl Kassel-Blitz. At the target level…) At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Joseph de Lalande V Paris (Paris is a French city, the capital of France and the capital of the region…)Tobias Meyer in Göttingen, Kaiser Cassini (The Cassini-Huygens mission is an automated space mission carried out in cooperation with …) de Thory in Vienna, Neville Maskelyne in St Helena, Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason in Africa (With an area of ​​30,221,532 km2, including islands…) the south (South is a cardinal point, opposite North).John Winthrop V new land (Newfoundland, in Micmac: Ktaqamk) is a large island off the coast of …)Alexandre Jay Pingré inisland (An island is an area of ​​land surrounded by water, whether that water is from a river, or…) to Rodrigues (Rodrigues is the smallest of the three islands in the Mascarene archipelago.) And Jean-Baptiste Chappe-Dateroche in Siberia. For various reasons data (In information technology (IT), data is a raw description, often…) collected were not satisfactory, and it was necessary to wait for the next crossing in 1769 to obtain satisfactory data.
• Mikhail Lomonosov also observes the transit of Venus and highlights for the first time that planet (A planet is a celestial body that revolves around the sun or another star in …) for one atmospheres (The word atmosphere can have several meanings:).

technology (The word technology has two de facto meanings:)

• Matthew Bolton opens a file manufacturing Soho (SoHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) is…) (near Birmingham) which uses the concept for the first time series (a string of words can have several meanings 🙂 disassembly.

Births

• January 17: James Hall († 1832), geologist W physical (A physicist is a scientist who studies the field of physics, ie…) Scotch.
• January 19: Pierre Marie Auguste Brosonnet (died 1807), the world of nature (The word naturalist refers to the field of natural science, and the adjective qualifies…) And doctor (A doctor is a professional doctor who has a doctor…) French.
• 1^any February: Christian Hendrik Pearson († 1836), South African mycologist.
• June 7: John Rennie († 1821), Engineer (“The primary function of an engineer is to solve the problems of nature…) Scotch.
• November 30: Smithson Tennant († 1815), Chemical (A chemist is a scientist who studies chemistry, that is, a science…) English, finderiridium (Iridium is a chemical element with symbol Ir and atomic number 77.) Andosmium (Osmium is the chemical element in the periodic table whose symbol is Os…).
• December 21: Jean-Louis Pons († 1831), astronomer (An astronomer is a scientist who specializes in the study of astronomy.) French, discoverer of 37 comets.
• December 25: William Gregor († 1817), British mineralogist, discoverer Titanium (Titanium is a metallic chemical element with the symbol Ti and the number …).

death

• March 21 – French dentist Pierre Fauchard is considered the father ofdentist (Dentistry (also called dentistry or dentistry) is the science…) Hadith (born circa 1678).
• April 7 – Thomas Bayes, Mathematics (A mathematician in the narrow sense is a researcher of mathematics, by extension every…) Briton (born in 1702), author Bayes theorem (Bayes’ theorem is a fundamental result in probability theory, …) in likely (Probability (from Latin probabilitas) is an assessment of the probable character of…).
• May 14 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (born 1710), author of Simpson’s method of calculus Digital (Digital information is information…) from one Basic (An integral is the result of an arithmetic operation performed on a function called …).
• November 30 John Dollond (John Dollond (10 June 1706 – 30 November 1761) was a British optical engineer).an English ophthalmologist (born 1706), worked on correctingchromatic aberration (In geometric optics, chromatic aberration refers to an optical aberration that results in…).
• The date is unknown – François-Xavier Bonne de Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (born circa 1678).