1705 in science
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The year 1705 in science
and technology
involved some significant events.
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- Edmond HalleyEdmond HalleyEdmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.-Biography and career:Halley...
, in his Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae, states that cometCometA comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
s seen in 1456, 1531, 1607, and 1682 were actually a single comet and correctly predicts that it will return in 17581758 in scienceThe year 1758 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Astronomy:* Comet Halley reappears as predicted by Edmond Halley in 1705.-Medicine:* Angélique du Coudray demonstrates the first obstetric mannequin.-Physics:...
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Births
- February 22 - Peter ArtediPeter ArtediPeter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the "father of Ichthyology."...
, Swedish naturalist (died 17351735 in scienceThe year 1735 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Astronomy:* July 11 - Pluto enters a fourteen year period inside the orbit of Neptune, which will not recur until 1979.-Chemistry:...
) - April 11 - William CookworthyWilliam Cookworthy-Bibliography:*Early New Church Worthies by the Rev Dr Jonathon Bayley*Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain by F.Severne Mackenna published by F.Lewis...
, English chemist (died 17801780 in scienceThe year 1780 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Health:* Clément-Joseph Tissot publishes Gymnastique médicinale et chirurgicale, ou, essai sur l'utilité du mouvement, ou des différens exercices du corps, et du repos dans la cure des malades in Paris, the first text on the...
) - June 21 - David HartleyDavid Hartley (philosopher)David Hartley was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology. -Early life and education:...
, English physician and psychologist (died 17571757 in scienceThe year 1757 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Astronomy:* Tobias Mayer presents accurate tables of the Moon's motion to the Board of Longitude in Great Britain.-Medicine:...
) - undated - Charles LabelyeCharles LabelyeCharles Labelye was a Swiss bridge engineer and mathematician. Moving to England in the 1720s and receiving patronage from the Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke, he is best known there for his work on the original Westminster Bridge and his invention on that project of caissons as a method of...
, Swiss engineer (died c. 17811781 in scienceThe year 1781 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Astronomy:* William Herschel discovers Uranus.* Charles Messier publishes final catalogue of Messier objects.* March 20 - Pierre Méchain discovers dwarf galaxy NGC 5195.-Biology:...
) - undated - Thomas BoulsoverThomas BoulsoverThomas Boulsover , Sheffield cutler and the inventor of Sheffield Plate, was born in what is now the Ecclesfield district of the city and died at his home at Whiteley Wood Hall, on the River Porter....
, English inventor (died 17881788 in scienceThe year 1788 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Biology:* Thomas Walter publishes Flora Caroliniana, the first Flora of North America to follow Linnaean taxonomy....
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Deaths
- January 17 - John RayJohn RayJohn Ray was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".He published important works on botany,...
, English naturalist (born 16271627 in scienceThe year 1627 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Exploration:* The Dutch ship the Gulden Zeepaert, skippered by Francois Thijssen, sails along the south coast of Australia.-Medicine:...
) - August 16 - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born 16541654 in scienceThe year 1654 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Mathematics:* At the prompting of the Chevalier de Méré, Blaise Pascal corresponds with Pierre de Fermat on gambling problems, from which is born the theory of probability.-Physics:...
) - October 11 - Guillaume AmontonsGuillaume AmontonsGuillaume Amontons was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in tribology, apart from Leonardo da Vinci, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Leonard Euler and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.-Life:Guillaume was born in Paris, France. His father was a lawyer from...
, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (born 16631663 in scienceThe year 1663 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Mathematics:* The first book about games of chance, Girolamo Cardano's Liber de ludo aleae , written in the 1560s, is published.-Births:...
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