1822 In Science

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The year 1822 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

GEOLOGY

Friedrich Mohs introduces his system of classifying minerals and his Scale Of Mineral Hardness

Georges Cuvier established new standards and methods in stratigraphy and palaeontology

Omalius D'Halloy identifies the Cretaceous Period. He also proposed the Jurassic System

MATHEMATICS

Charles Babbage begins construction of his difference machine, a device for calculating Logarithm s and trigonometric functions

Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach discovered that any Triangle 's Nine-point Circle is externally tangent to that triangle's three Excircle s and internally tangent to its Incircle .

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