The year 1765 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Astronomy edit
- February 8 – Nevil Maskelyne becomes Astronomer Royal in England.[1]
Technology edit
- May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser.[2]
- October 15 – Gribeauval system for manufacture of cannon introduced in France by royal decree.[3]
- Timișoara Fortress construction completed by the Habsburg Empire.
Zoology edit
- Saverio Manetti begins publication of his Storia naturale degli uccelli, trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornate ("Natural History of the Birds, treated systematically and adorned with copperplate engraving illustrations, in miniature and life-size") in Florence.
Awards edit
- Copley Medal: Not awarded[4]
Births edit
- March 7 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (died 1833)
- November 14 – Robert Fulton, American engineer (died 1815)
- December 8 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (died 1825)
Deaths edit
- April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist (born 1711)
- May 7 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician (born 1713)
- September – Richard Pococke, English anthropologist and explorer (born 1704)
- December 25 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian, natural scientist and pioneer in the field of electricity (born 1698)
References edit
- ^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1765". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 323. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Chartrand, René (2003). Napoleon's Guns 1792-1815. Vol. 1. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 1-84176-458-2.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.