1813 in science
overview of natural science-related events during the year of 1813
The year 1813 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
April – William Charles Wells reads a paper to the Royal Society of London making the first clear statement about natural selection.
Charles Waterton begins the process of turning his estate at Walton Hall, West Yorkshire, England, into what is, in effect, the world's first nature reserve.
Chemistry
Mathieu Orfila publishes his groundbreaking Traité des poisons, formalizing the field of toxicology.
Louis Jacques Thénard commences publication of his textbook Traité de chimie élémentaire, théorique et pratique in Paris.
Edward Howard invents the enclosed vacuum pan for refining sugar.
Exploration
May 11 – Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth leave on an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains (New South Wales).
Mathematics
S. D. Poisson publishes Poisson's equation, his correction of Laplace's second order partial differential equation for potential.
Medicine
English physician Thomas Tutton publishes Tracts on Delirium Tremens, on Peritonitis, and on Some other Internal Inflammatory Affections, and on the Gout in London, providing case studies of delirium tremens.
Physics
British engineer Peter Ewart supports the idea of the conservation of energy in his paper "On the measure of moving force".
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