Editing 1767 in science

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The year '''1767 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Agriculture==
* [[Arthur Young (writer)|Arthur Young]] publishes ''The farmer's letters to the people of England, containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman ... to which is added, Sylvæ, or, Occasional tracts on husbandry and rural oeconomics''.

==Exploration==
* June 17 – British [[Royal Navy]] Captain [[Samuel Wallis]] becomes the first European definitely to visit the island of [[Tahiti]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]], during [[HMS Dolphin (1751)#Second circumnavigation|HMS ''Dolphin''{{'}}s second circumnavigation]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Les Grands Explorateurs|editor=Laneyrie-Dagen, Nadeije|publisher=Larousse|year=1996|isbn=2-03-505305-6|page=181}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_12_1903/Volume_12,_No.3,_September_1903/Who_discovered_Tahiti%3F_by_Geo._Collingridge,_p184-186|work=Journal of the Polynesian Society|volume=12|year=1903|title=Who Discovered Tahiti?|first=Geo.|last=Collingridge|pages=184–186}}</ref>
* July 3 – [[Pitcairn Island]] in the Pacific Ocean is sighted from HMS ''Swallow'' (1766) by 15-year-old [[Midshipman]] Robert Pitcairn on a British Royal Navy expeditionary voyage commanded by [[Philip Carteret]], the first definite European sighting.
* Autumn – North Carolina woodsman [[Daniel Boone]] goes through the [[Cumberland Gap]] and reaches [[Kentucky]] (in defiance of the [[Royal Proclamation of 1763]]). He discovers a rich hunting ground, contested by several Native American tribes.

==Technology==
* January 1 – First annual volume of ''[[The Nautical Almanac]] and Astronomical Ephemeris'', produced by British [[Astronomer Royal]] [[Nevil Maskelyne]] at the [[Royal Observatory, Greenwich]], gives navigators the means to find [[longitude]] at sea using tables of [[lunar distance (navigation)|lunar distance]].<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=224–225|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* July 3 – First edition of ''[[Adresseavisen]]'', [[Norway|Norway's]] oldest newspaper remaining in print, is published.
* [[Coldstream Bridge]] on the [[England]]/[[Scotland]] border, designed by [[John Smeaton]], is opened, one of the first long (300 feet (90 m)) bridges with a flat deck.<ref>{{cite book|last=Champness|first=John|year=2005|title=Thomas Harrison: Georgian Architect of Chester and Lancaster 1744–1829|publisher=Centre for North-West Regional Studies, [[University of Lancaster]]|page=21|isbn=1-86220-169-2}}</ref>
* [[Horace-Bénédict de Saussure]] constructs the first known Western [[solar oven]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Horace de Saussure and his Hot Boxes of the 1700s |url=http://www.solarcooking.org/saussure.htm |first=Ken |last=Butti |publisher=Solar Cooking Archive, Solar Cookers International |location=Sacramento, California |date=2004-12-01 |accessdate=2010-01-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122121205/http://www.solarcooking.org/saussure.htm |archivedate=2010-01-22 }}</ref>
* [[Joseph Priestley]] discovers a method of producing [[carbonated water]] and publishes ''The History and Present State of Electricity''.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/324 324]}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Copley Medal]]: [[John Ellis (naturalist)|John Ellis]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=21 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

==Births==
* March 6 – [[Davies Gilbert|Davies Giddy]], [[English people|English]] promoter of science (died [[1839 in science|1839]])
* August 24 – [[Bernhard Meyer]], [[German people|German]] [[physician]] and [[ornithologist]] (died [[1836 in science|1836]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Bewick Bridge]], English [[mathematician]] (died [[1833 in science|1833]])

==Deaths==
* February 19 – [[François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix]], [[French people|French]] [[physician]] and [[botanist]] (born [[1706 in science|1706]])
* March 20 – [[Firmin Abauzit]], French scientist (born [[1679 in science|1679]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon]], French mathematician (born [[1724 in science|1724]])

==References==
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