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The year 1741 in science and technology involved some significant events.
- 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". [1] 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 publishes The British Telescope: Being an Ephemeris of the Coelestial Motions.
- Johann Jacob Dillenius publishes Historia Muscorum, a significant work on cryptogams.
- May – Vitus Bering sets out from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to map the coasts of Siberia and Alaska.
- July 15 – Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends some men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
- Nicolas Andry publishes Orthopédie, giving a name to the discipline of orthopedics.
- December 25 – Anders Celsius proposes a centigrade temperature scale.
- July 20 – Georg Wilhelm Steller, physician on Bering’s Second Kamchatka Expedition, becomes the first European naturalist to set foot on Alaskan soil ( Kayak Island), identifying many species for the first time, including Steller's jay. On the return voyage he discovers Steller's sea cow (extinct by 1768). [2]
- January 20 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (died 1783)
- March 17 – William Withering, English botanist, geologist, chemist and physician who discovered digitalis (died 1799)
- September 22 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (died 1811)
- probable date – Bryan Higgins, Irish-born chemist (died 1818)
- May 16 – Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German inventor of four-colour printing (born 1667)
- December 19 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (born 1681) (on Bering Island)
- ^ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
- ^ "Steller's SeaCow". Sirenian International. 2005. Archived from the original on 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
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| Paleontology |
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| Terrestrial environment |
| Other/related |
The year 1741 in science and technology involved some significant events.
- 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". [1] 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 publishes The British Telescope: Being an Ephemeris of the Coelestial Motions.
- Johann Jacob Dillenius publishes Historia Muscorum, a significant work on cryptogams.
- May – Vitus Bering sets out from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to map the coasts of Siberia and Alaska.
- July 15 – Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends some men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
- Nicolas Andry publishes Orthopédie, giving a name to the discipline of orthopedics.
- December 25 – Anders Celsius proposes a centigrade temperature scale.
- July 20 – Georg Wilhelm Steller, physician on Bering’s Second Kamchatka Expedition, becomes the first European naturalist to set foot on Alaskan soil ( Kayak Island), identifying many species for the first time, including Steller's jay. On the return voyage he discovers Steller's sea cow (extinct by 1768). [2]
- January 20 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (died 1783)
- March 17 – William Withering, English botanist, geologist, chemist and physician who discovered digitalis (died 1799)
- September 22 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (died 1811)
- probable date – Bryan Higgins, Irish-born chemist (died 1818)
- May 16 – Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German inventor of four-colour printing (born 1667)
- December 19 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (born 1681) (on Bering Island)
- ^ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
- ^ "Steller's SeaCow". Sirenian International. 2005. Archived from the original on 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.