The year 1806 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
- Publication begins in London of the Flora Graeca collected by John Sibthorp.12
- Pierre André Latreille begins publication in France of Genera crustaceorum et insectorum, secundum ordinem naturalem ut familias disposita.
Chemistry
- November 20 – Humphry Davy presents the results of his researches in the electrolysis of water to the Royal Society of London.
- Louis Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolate asparagine in crystalline form from asparagus juice in France, the first amino acid identified.
Exploration
- August – English seal hunter Abraham Bristow discovers the Auckland Islands.34
Mathematics
- Jean-Robert Argand introduces the Argand diagram.5
- Adrien-Marie Legendre gives the first published application of the method of least squares, in a supplement to his Nouvelles méthodes pour la détermination des orbites des comètes.67
Medicine
- John Bell concludes publication of The Principles of Surgery in two volumes (1801–06). Its treatment of arterial surgery in particular ranks him as a founder of vascular surgery.8 His brother Charles Bell publishes Essays on The Anatomy of Expression in Painting.
Technology
- October 7 – Carbon paper patented by Ralph Wedgwood in the United Kingdom.9
Awards
Births
- January 14 – Matthew Fontaine Maury, American oceanographer (died 1873)
- February 14 – Joseph-François Malgaigne, French surgeon (died 1865)
- February 18 – Eduard Heis, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1877)
- April 9 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British civil engineer (died 1859)
- June 12 – John A. Roebling, German American bridge engineer (died 1869)
- June 27 – Augustus De Morgan, British logician (died 1871)
- November 21 – Alexander Henry Haliday, Irish entomologist (died 1870)
- December 11
- Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (died 1886)
- Alfred Swaine Taylor, English toxicologist, "father of British forensic medicine" (died 1880)
- Luther V. Bell, American psychiatric physician (died 1862)
Deaths
- c. January?? – Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of West Africa (born 1771)
- April 5 – Benjamin Bell, Scottish surgeon (born 1749)
- June 23 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist (born 1723)
- August 3 – Michel Adanson, French botanist (born 1727)
- August 23 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (born 1736)
- October 9 – Benjamin Banneker, African-American astronomer and surveyor (born 1731)
References
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Lack, H. Walter; Mabberley, David (1998). The Flora Graeca Story: Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854897-4. 0-19-854897-4 ↩
Mawar, Granville (1999). Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-22809-0. 0-312-22809-0 ↩
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"Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020. https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal ↩