Editing 1777 in science

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The year '''1777 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Exploration==
* March – [[Third voyage of James Cook]]: English explorer [[James Cook|Captain Cook]] discovers [[Mangaia]] and [[Atiu]] in the [[Cook Islands]].

==Mathematics==
* [[Leonhard Euler]] introduces the symbol ''i'' to represent the [[square root]] of −1.<ref>{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8|page=32}}</ref>

==Technology==
* ''probable date'' – [[Thomas Arnold]] of [[London]] produces the first watch ("Arnold 36") to be called a ''[[chronometer watch|chronometer]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=An account kept during thirteen months in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich of the going of a pocket chronometer made on a new construction by John Arnold|location=London|year=1780}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=chronometer, ''n.''|work=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] online version|edition=2nd|year=1989|url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/32606|accessdate=2012-03-09}} {{OEDsub}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Copley Medal]]: [[John Mudge]]<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==
* February 12 – [[Bernard Courtois]], [[French people|French]] chemist (died [[1838 in science|1838]])
* April 30 – [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]], [[Germans|German]] mathematician (died [[1855 in science|1855]])
* May 4 – [[Louis Jacques Thénard]], French chemist (died [[1857 in science|1857]])
* May 18 – [[John George Children]], [[English people|English]] chemist, mineralogist and entomologist (died [[1852 in science|1852]])
* August 14 – [[Hans Christian Ørsted]], [[Danes|Danish]] physicist (died [[1851 in science|1851]])

==Deaths==
* September 22 – [[John Bartram]], naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany" (born [[1699 in science|1699]])
* September 25 – [[Johann Heinrich Lambert]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[polymath]] (born [[1728 in science|1728]])
* December 7 – [[Albrecht von Haller]], Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born [[1708 in science|1708]])
* [[Celia Grillo Borromeo]], [[Italians|Italian]] scientist and [[mathematician]] (born [[1684 in science|1684]])

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