1835 in science

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The year 1835 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy[]

  • August 5 – First sighting of the return of Comet Halley by Father , director of the Collegio Romano at the Vatican. It is next seen on August 21 by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve at the Dorpat Observatory. John Herschel had been expected to find the comet first, as he was at the time in South Africa with his 20 ft focal length reflector – at this time the world's largest telescope. He finally observes it in October and watches until it reaches perihelion November 16. It reappears in January 1836, and Herschel will be the last person to observe it in May.
  • August 25 – The first of six articles on discoveries of living creatures on the Moon supposedly made by Herschel and a fictitious companion named Dr. Andrew Grant is published in the New York Sun. This incident is now known as the Great Moon Hoax.
  • Berlin Observatory opened.
  • Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville become the first women members of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Mathematics[]

  • Adolphe Quetelet publishes Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés, ou Essai de physique sociale (translated as Treatise on Man), outlining his theory of "social physics" and describing his concept of the "average man" (l'homme moyen) who is characterized by the mean values of measured variables that follow a normal distribution.[4]

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References[]

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  2. ^ Murchison, R. I. (1835). "On the Silurian System of rocks". The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. 7: 46–52.
  3. ^ Murchison, R. I.; Sedgwick, A. (1835). "On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems". Report of the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: 59–61.
  4. ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
  5. ^ Airy, G. B. (1835) "On the Diffraction of an Object-glass with Circular Aperture". Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 5: 283–291.
  6. ^ Mathew Graves at Who Named It?
  7. ^ Graves, R. J. (1835). "New observed affection of the thyroid gland in females" (Clinical lectures). London Medical and Surgical Journal (Renshaw) 7: 516–517. Repr. in Medical Classics (1940) 5: 33–36.
  8. ^ Morabia, Alfredo (March 2006). "Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis and the evaluation of bloodletting". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 99 (3): 158–160. doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.3.158. PMC 1383766. PMID 16508057.
  9. ^ Eiseley, Loren (1961). Darwin's Century. Anchor Books (Doubleday). p. 227.
  10. ^ Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. pp. 127–8. ISBN 0-7181-1279-2.
  11. ^ Vienna Symphonic Library > Vienna Academy > Brass > Tubas > Bass tuba > History.
  12. ^ "The electromechanical relay of Joseph Henry". Georgi Dalakov. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  13. ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
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