Editing 1799 in science (section)

==Births==
* January – [[James Meadows Rendel (engineer)|James Meadows Rendel]], [[English people|English]] [[civil engineer]] (died [[1856 in science|1856]])
* January 12 – [[Priscilla Susan Bury]], British botanist (died [[1872]]) 
* March 16 – [[Anna Atkins]], British botanist (died [[1871]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Catharine M. C.|last=Haines|title=International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950|location=Santa Barbara|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2001|isbn=978-1-57607-090-1|page=10}}</ref>
* May 21 – [[Mary Anning]], English [[Paleontology|paleontologist]] (died [[1847 in science|1847]])
* June 3 &ndash; [[Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti]], Italian botanist (died [[1879]]) 
* June 18
** [[William Lassell]], English astronomer (died [[1880 in science|1880]])
** [[Prosper Ménière]], [[French people|French]] [[physician]] (died [[1862 in science|1862]])
* June 25 – [[David Douglas (botanist)|David Douglas]], Scottish-born [[Botany|botanist]] (died [[1834 in science|1834]])
* September 8 – [[James Bowman Lindsay]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] inventor (died 1862)
* December 20 – [[Nicholas Callan]], [[Irish people|Irish]] [[physicist]] (died [[1864 in science|1864]])
* December ''(prob.)'' – [[Granny Smith|Maria Ann Sherwood]], [[England|English]]-born [[horticulturalist]] (died [[1870 in science|1870]])
* Undated
** [[Petrache Poenaru]], Romanian inventor (died [[1875 in science|1875]])
** [[John Stringfellow]], English pioneer of heavier-than-air flight (died [[1883 in science|1883]])