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The year 1871 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Publications

• Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, by Alexander von Humboldt, covers a large number of topics in scientific exploration and inventions.
• The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin, outlining his theory for man's origins and his theory of sexual selection.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Julius Robert von Mayer
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Andrew Ramsay

Births

Deaths

• May 11 - John Herschel (b. 1792), mathematician and astronomer.
• October 18 - Charles Babbage (b. 1791), English mathematician and inventor of computing machines.