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1741 In Science
The year 1741 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy * August 29 – Pluto (not known at the time) reached perihelion (closest approach to the Sun). * December 11 – a "Fire-ball" and explosion heard over southern England, about 11 a.m. "a countryman ... saw a flash of Lightning Before he heard the Noise ... The sound was double ... a Ball of Fire ... took its Course to the East ... over Westminster ... it divided into Two Heads [and] left a Train of Smoke ... which continued ascending for 20 minutes". The description is reminiscent of the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013. * Anders Celsius establishes the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. * Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin publishes his first paper on the moons of Jupiter, in the ''Acta'' of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala. * Edmund Weaver (astronomer), Edmund Weaver publishes ''The British Telescope: Being an Ephemeris of the Coelestial Motions''. Botany * Johann Jacob Dillenius publishes ''Historia Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 Common Era, BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the Universe, physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of History of science in classical antiquity, Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
