1777 in science
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The year 1777 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Exploration
- March â Third voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain Cook discovers Mangaia and Atiu in the Cook Islands.
Mathematics
- Leonhard Euler introduces the symbol i to represent the square root of â1.[1]
Technology
- probable date â Thomas Arnold of London produces the first watch ("Arnold 36") to be called a chronometer.[2][3]
Awards
Births
- February 12 â Bernard Courtois, French chemist (died 1838)
- April 30 â Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (died 1855)
- May 4 â Louis Jacques Thénard, French chemist (died 1857)
- May 18 â John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist and entomologist (died 1852)
- August 14 â Hans Christian Ãrsted, Danish physicist (died 1851)
Deaths
- September 22 â John Bartram, naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany" (born 1699)
- September 25 â Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss polymath (born 1728)
- December 7 â Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born 1708)
- Celia Grillo Borromeo, Italian scientist and mathematician (born 1684)