The year 1788 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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- James Hutton's Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe is published for the first time, in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[5]
- March 7 – Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (died 1878)
- March 22 – Pierre Joseph Pelletier, French chemist (died 1842)
- April 18 – Charlotte Murchison, Scottish geologist (died 1869)
- May 10 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (died 1827)
- July 1 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mechanical and military engineer and mathematician (died 1867)
- July 23 – Prideaux John Selby, English ornithologist (died 1867)
- September 12 – Charlotte von Siebold, German gynecologist (died 1859)
- October 14 – Edward Sabine, Anglo Irish physicist, astronomer and explorer (died 1883)
- December 21 – Thomas Southwood Smith, English physician and sanitary reformer (died 1861)
- James Murray, Irish physician (died 1871)
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