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1785 in science
List of years in science
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Table
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1775
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1776
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1777
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1778
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1779
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1780
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1781
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1782
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1783
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1784
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1785
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1786
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1787
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1788
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1789
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1790
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1791
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1792
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1793
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1794
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1795
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1782
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1783
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1784
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1785
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1786
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1787
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1788
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1750s
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1760s
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1770s
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1780s
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1790s
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1800s
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1810s
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17th century
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18th century
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19th century
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The year
1785 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Contents
1
Aviation
2
Exploration
3
Medicine
4
Awards
5
Births
6
Deaths
Aviation
January 7
-
Frenchman
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
and
American
John Jeffries
travel from
Dover
,
England
to
Calais
,
France
in a gas
balloon
, becoming the first to cross the
English Channel
by air
Exploration
André Michaux
is sent by the French government to
North America
to look for new
plants
Medicine
William Withering
publishes
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses
.
Awards
Copley Medal
:
William Roy
Births
March 22
-
Adam Sedgwick
,
geologist
(died
1873
)
April 26
-
John James Audubon
,
naturalist
,
illustrator
(died
1851
)
July 6
-
William Jackson Hooker
, botanist (died
1865
)
Deaths
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