The year 1817 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Quick Facts List of years in science (table) ... List of years in science (table) … 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 … Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +... vte Close Biology Georges Cuvier publishes Le Règne Animal. Chemistry Discovery of cadmium by Friedrich Stromeyer. Discovery of lithium by Johann Arfvedson. Discovery of selenium by Jöns Jakob Berzelius. Pierre-Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou isolate chlorophyll[1] and emetine. Leopold Gmelin begins publication of his Handbuch der theoretischen Chemie.[2] Medicine First cholera pandemic (1817–24) originates in Bengal, reaching Calcutta by September.[3] James Parkinson publishes An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, describing "paralysis agitans", the condition which will become known as Parkinson's disease. Technology March – Ackermann steering geometry invented by Georg Lankensperger. June 12 – German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Laufmaschine), the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim. July 10 – David Brewster patents the kaleidoscope.[4] Institutions October 1 – Philomaths established secretly by Poles at the Imperial University of Vilnius. Awards Copley Medal: Henry Kater[5] Births January 29 – William Ferrel (died 1891), American meteorologist. February 15 – Robert Angus Smith (died 1884), Scottish-born atmospheric chemist. April 8 – Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (died 1894), Mauritian-born physiologist and neurologist. May 31 – Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher (died 1860), French geologist. June 30 – Joseph Dalton Hooker (died 1911), English botanist. July 5 – Carl Vogt (died 1895), German scientist who publishes notable works in zoology, geology and physiology. July 15 – John Fowler (died 1898), English civil engineer. September 10 – Richard Spruce (died 1893), English botanist. October 10 – C. H. D. Buys Ballot (died 1890), Dutch meteorologist. October 17 – Alfred Des Cloizeaux (died 1897), French mineralogist. November 26 – Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (died 1884), Alsatian French chemist. December 13 – Arthur Hill Hassall (died 1894), English physician, microbiologist and chemical analyst. December 14 – Sophia Wilkens (died 1889), Swedish pioneer in the education of students with intellectual disability. Deaths January 1 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth (born 1743), German chemist. April 12 – Charles Messier (born 1730), French astronomer. May 12 – William Goforth (born 1766), American physician and paleontologist. June 2 – Clotilde Tambroni, Italian philologist and linguist (born 1758) June 11 – William Gregor (born 1761), Cornish mineralogist. July 28 – Abraham Gottlob Werner (born 1749), German geologist. August 7 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (born 1739), French-born American industrialist. September 18 – William Charles Wells (born 1757), American physician. November 7 – Jean-André Deluc (born 1727), Swiss geologist. December 15 – Abate Giovanni Battista Guglielmini (born 1763), Bolognese physicist. References [1]Delépine, Marcel (September 1951). "Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Caventou". Journal of Chemical Education. 28 (9): 454. Bibcode:1951JChEd..28..454D. doi:10.1021/ed028p454. ISSN 0021-9584. [2]"Leopold Gmelin". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 2011-04-07. [3]Hays, J. N. (2005). Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-658-9. [4]British patent no. 4136. "Brewster Patent" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-05-31. [5]"Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2020. Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.