The year 1879 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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Astronomy

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  • British children's writer and amateur astronomer Agnes Giberne publishes the popular illustrated book Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners which sells 24,000 copies on both sides of the Atlantic in twenty years.[1]

Biology

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Cartography

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Chemistry

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Earth sciences

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History of science

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Mathematics

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Medicine

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Meteorology

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Paleontology

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Pharmacology

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Physics

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Psychology

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Technology

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Awards

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Chapman, Allan (1999). The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920. Chichester: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-96257-0.
  2. ^ Bates, Marston (1950). The Nature of Natural History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 125.
  3. ^ Klein, Christopher (2014-02-14). "The Sweet History of Chocolate". History. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  4. ^ fsu.edu: Otto Schott (CV)
  5. ^ Dokuchaev, V.V. (1879). Short Historical Description and Critical Analysis of the More Important Soil Classifications. Trav. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg 10: 64-67 (In Russian); Tchernozeme (terre noire) de la Russie d‘Europe. St. Petersburg: Société Impériale Libre Économique.
  6. ^ Wilson, Robin (2008). Lewis Carroll in Numberland. London: Allen Lane. pp. 91–95. ISBN 978-0-7139-9757-6.
  7. ^ Klein, Felix (1879). "Ueber die Transformation siebenter Ordnung der elliptischen Functionen". Mathematische Annalen. 14: 428–471. doi:10.1007/BF01677143.. Translated into English by Silvio Levy as "On the order-seven transformation of elliptic functions", The Eightfold Way, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, vol. 35, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 287–331, MR 1722419
  8. ^ Brain 1: 514-18; 2: 42-67
  9. ^ Compston, Alastair (2007). "On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane. By J. Crichton-Browne, MD, FRSE, Lord Chancellor's Visitor. Brain 1879: 1; 514–518 and 1879: 2; 42–67". Brain. 130 (3): 599–601. doi:10.1093/brain/awm020.
  10. ^ von Winiwarter, F. (1879). "Ueber eine eigenthumliche Form von Endarteriitis und Endophlebitis mit Gangran des Fusses". Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie. 23: 202–26.
  11. ^ Yentis, S. M.; Vlassakov, K. V. (1999). "Vassily von Anrep, forgotten pioneer of regional anesthesia". Anesthesiology. 90 (3): 890–5. doi:10.1097/00000542-199903000-00033. PMID 10078692.
  12. ^ "Über die Beziehung zwischen der Wärmestrahlung und der Temperatur" in Bulletin of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
  13. ^ "1879". Co-Curate. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  14. ^ "SS Rotomahana". Clydebuilt. Archived from the original on 2005-03-12. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
  15. ^ "Who Built the First Oil Engine?". Stationary Engine. 190: 5. December 1989. Acquired for collection of The Henry Ford.
  16. ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.