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1825 in science

The year 1825 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1824 in science, other events of 1825, 1826 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Astronomy 2 Chemistry 3 Mathematics 4 Paleontology 5 Technology 6 Awards 7 Births 8 Deaths

Astronomy

• Pierre-Simon Laplace completes his study of gravitation, the stability of the solar system, tides, the precession of the equinoxes, the libration of the Moon, and Saturn's rings in Mecanique Celeste

Chemistry

• Michael Faraday isolates benzene
• Hans Christian Orsted produces metallic aluminium in an impure form

Mathematics

• Augustin-Louis Cauchy presents the Cauchy integral theorem for general integration paths -- he assumes the function being integrated has a continuous derivative
• Augustin-Louis Cauchy introduces the theory of residues in complex analysis
• Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Adrien-Marie Legendre prove Fermat's last theorem for n = 5
• André-Marie Ampère discovers Stokes' theorem

Paleontology

• Georges Cuvier proposes his catastrophe theory as the cause of extinctions of large groups of animals
• Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire identifies Cuvier's fossil `crocodile´ as a teleosaurus

Technology

• September 27th - The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens

Awards

• Copley Medal: François Arago; Peter Barlow

Births

• May 4 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (died 1895)

Deaths

• October 6 - Bernard Germain Etienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacepede, naturalist (born 1756)

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