Science & Discovery
Enlightenment breakthroughs across chemistry, astronomy, physics, and medicine as natural philosophy reshaped the sciences in 1777.
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Albrecht von Haller and the Close of the Founding Era of ...
The death in Bern on December 12, 1777 of Albrecht von Haller — the Swiss physician-scientist who...
Smallpox Inoculation and Variolation in 1777
Smallpox inoculation and variolation dominated medical practice and public health policy in 1777 ...
Carl Wilhelm Scheele's "Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire"
In 1777, Swedish-German apothecary Carl Wilhelm Scheele published his only book, describing the '...
The Royal Society Lightning Conductor Controversy of 1777
In 1777, the Royal Society became embroiled in a bitter dispute over whether lightning conductors...
Lavoisier's Oxygen Theory
In 1777, Antoine Lavoisier published "Mémoire sur la combustion en général" ("On Combustion in Ge...
Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis and Cosmological Revolution ...
Throughout the 1770s, and crucially in 1777, French mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Lap...
Joseph Priestley and Pneumatic Chemistry in 1777
Joseph Priestley, the English clergyman-chemist who had discovered "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen...
William Herschel's Telescopes and Deep-Sky Observations
In September 1777, William Herschel relocated to 19 New King Street in Bath and established a pri...
Coulomb's Torsion Balance and Electrostatics
In 1777, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb submitted to the Académie Royale des Sciences a prize-winnin...
Petrus Camper's Comparative Anatomy and the Facial Angle
Dutch anatomist Petrus Camper pioneered comparative anatomy in 1777 through systematic facial ang...