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The year 1825 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

ASTRONOMY

Pierre-Simon Laplace completes his study of Gravitation , the stability of the solar system, tides, the precession of the equinoxes, the Libration of the Moon, and Saturn 's rings in ''Mecanique Celeste''

CHEMISTRY

Michael Faraday isolates Benzene

Hans Christian Ørsted produces metallic Aluminium in an impure form

MATHEMATICS

Augustin-Louis Cauchy presents the Cauchy Integral Theorem for general integration paths -- he assumes the function being integrated has a continuous derivative

Augustin-Louis Cauchy introduces the theory of residues in Complex Analysis

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Adrien-Marie Legendre prove Fermat's Last Theorem for ''n = 5''

André-Marie Ampère discovers Stokes' Theorem

PALEONTOLOGY

Georges Cuvier proposes his Catastrophe Theory as the cause of Extinction s of large groups of animals

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire identifies Cuvier's fossil ` Crocodile ´ as a Teleosaurus

TECHNOLOGY

September 27th - The world's first modern railway, the Stockton And Darlington Railway , opens

AWARDS

; Peter Barlow

BIRTHS

May 4 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley (d. 1895 ), English Biologist .

DEATHS

October 6 - Bernard Germain Etienne (b. 1756 ), Naturalist .