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March 22 – Company of Surgeons granted a royal charter to become the Royal College of Surgeons in London. [1]September – Philippe Pinel publishes Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale ou la manie (Medical and philosophical Treatise on insanity or mania) which marks the beginning of an in-depth change in the approaches and methods of work with "lunatics".
A year later, Thomas Young demonstrated the wave nature of light—which received strong experimental support from the work of Augustin-Jean Fresnel—and the principle of interference. [22] In 1813, Peter Ewart supported the idea of the conservation of energy in his paper On the measure of moving force. [23]
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The signature of a large solar storm has been found for the years 774–775 and 993–994. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Carbon-14 levels stored in 775 suggest an event about 20 times the normal variation of the Sun's activity, and 10 or more times the size of the Carrington Event. [ 35 ]
The early-to-mid 1800s were a period of intense debate on the particle-versus-wave nature of light. Although the observation of the Arago spot in 1819 may have seemed to settle the matter definitively in favor of Fresnel's wave theory of light , various concerns continued to appear to be addressed more satisfactorily by Newton's corpuscular ...
A photo of the original purchase order from Thomas Edison to Corning for the glass encasement for Edison’s lightbulb in 1880. CEO Wendell Weeks keeps the purchase order framed in his office as a ...
A contemporary German popular astronomical book also noticed that light-year is an odd name. [25] In 1868 an English journal labelled the light-year as a unit used by the Germans. [26] Eddington called the light-year an inconvenient and irrelevant unit, which had sometimes crept from popular use into technical investigations. [27]
Facebook/Sarah A. Chrisman Sarah is a writer about the Victorian era, while Gabriel works in a bookshop: Their "entire life is an ongoing research project into our favorite decades of the 1880's ...