The year 1761 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
June 6 – The first
transit of Venus since
Edmond Halley suggested that its observation could determine the distance from the
Earth to the
Sun.
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle set up a 62-station network for observing the transit. Those taking part included:
Leopold Auenbrugger publishes Novum ex Percussione Thoracis Humani Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi in Vienna, for the first time advocating
percussion of the chest as a diagnostic measure.
Giovanni Battista Morgagni publishes De Sedibus et causis morborum per anatomem indagatis ("Of the seats and causes of diseases investigated through anatomy", published in Venice), a pioneering work of
anatomical pathology.
^Williams, Roger L. (1988). "Gerard and Jaume: Two Neglected Figures in the History of Jussiaean Classification". Taxon. 37: 2–34.
doi:
10.2307/1220932.
JSTOR1220932.
^Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1762). "Mémoire sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques". Histoire de l'Académie. XVII. Berlin (published 1768): 265–322.
^Singy, Patrick (2010). "The popularization of medicine in the eighteenth century: writing, reading, and rewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot's Avis au peuple sur sa santé". The Journal of Modern History. 82: 769–800.
doi:
10.1086/656073.
JSTOR656073.
^Jean-François Vincent.
"Fauchard, Pierre". www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr (in French). Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé, Université de Paris (Base biographique). Retrieved 2021-02-08.
The year 1761 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
June 6 – The first
transit of Venus since
Edmond Halley suggested that its observation could determine the distance from the
Earth to the
Sun.
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle set up a 62-station network for observing the transit. Those taking part included:
Leopold Auenbrugger publishes Novum ex Percussione Thoracis Humani Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi in Vienna, for the first time advocating
percussion of the chest as a diagnostic measure.
Giovanni Battista Morgagni publishes De Sedibus et causis morborum per anatomem indagatis ("Of the seats and causes of diseases investigated through anatomy", published in Venice), a pioneering work of
anatomical pathology.
^Williams, Roger L. (1988). "Gerard and Jaume: Two Neglected Figures in the History of Jussiaean Classification". Taxon. 37: 2–34.
doi:
10.2307/1220932.
JSTOR1220932.
^Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1762). "Mémoire sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques". Histoire de l'Académie. XVII. Berlin (published 1768): 265–322.
^Singy, Patrick (2010). "The popularization of medicine in the eighteenth century: writing, reading, and rewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot's Avis au peuple sur sa santé". The Journal of Modern History. 82: 769–800.
doi:
10.1086/656073.
JSTOR656073.
^Jean-François Vincent.
"Fauchard, Pierre". www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr (in French). Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé, Université de Paris (Base biographique). Retrieved 2021-02-08.