Editing 1846 in science (section)

==Mathematics==
* [[Augustin-Louis Cauchy]] publishes [[Green's theorem]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=A.|last=Cauchy|year=1846|url=https://archive.org/stream/ComptesRendusAcademieDesSciences0023/ComptesRendusAcadmieDesSciences-Tome023-Juillet-dcembre1846#page/n254/mode/1up|title=Sur les intégrales qui s'étendent à tous les points d'une courbe fermée [On integrals that extend over all of the points of a closed curve]|journal=[[Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences]]|volume=23|pages=251–255}}</ref>
* [[James Clerk Maxwell]]'s first scientific paper describes a mechanical means of drawing mathematical [[curve]]s with a piece of twine, and the properties of [[ellipse]]s, [[Cartesian ovals]] and related curves with more than two [[Focus (geometry)|foci]]. It has to be read on his behalf to the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] as he is a 14-year-old schoolboy at this time.<ref>{{cite journal|title=On the description of oval curves and those having a plurality of foci|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|volume=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Harman|first=Peter M.|title=The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v4xjVtszqssC|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-00585-X|page=506}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Key dates in the life of James Clerk Maxwell|url=http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/html/key_facts_about_maxwell.html|publisher=[[James Clerk Maxwell Foundation]]|access-date=2023-12-08|archive-date=2020-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305045153/http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/html/key_facts_about_maxwell.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Mahon|first=Basil|title=The Man Who Changed Everything – the Life of James Clerk Maxwell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mGo_jtHwL0sC|year=2003|publisher=Wiley|isbn=0-470-86171-1|page=16}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gardner|first=Martin|author-link=Martin Gardner|title=The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications|url=https://archive.org/details/lastrecreationsh00gard_0|url-access=registration|year=2007|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-0-387-25827-0|pages=46-9}}</ref>