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The year '''1806 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events, listed below.

==Biology==
* Publication begins in [[London]] of the ''[[Flora Graeca]]'' collected by [[John Sibthorp]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Harris|first=Stephen|title=The Magnificent Flora Graeca: How the Mediterranean Came to the English Garden|location=Oxford|publisher=[[Bodleian Library]]|year=2007|isbn=978-1-85124-306-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Lack|first1=H. Walter|last2=Mabberley|first2=David|year=1998|title=The Flora Graeca Story: Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-854897-4}}</ref>
* [[Pierre André Latreille]] begins publication in [[France]] of {{Lang|la|Genera crustaceorum et insectorum, secundum ordinem naturalem ut familias disposita}}.

==Chemistry==
* November 20 – [[Humphry Davy]] presents the results of his researches in the [[electrolysis]] of water to the [[Royal Society]] of London.
* [[Louis Nicolas Vauquelin]] and [[Pierre Jean Robiquet]] isolate [[asparagine]] in crystalline form from [[asparagus]] juice in France, the first [[amino acid]] identified.

==Exploration==
* August – [[English people|English]] [[Seal hunting|seal hunter]] [[Abraham Bristow]] discovers the [[Auckland Islands]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mawar|first=Granville|title=Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling|year=1999|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=0-312-22809-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/ahabstradesagaof00mawe}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|format=|first=A. G. E.|last=Jones|title=Captain Abraham Bristow and the Auckland Islands|journal=[[Notes and Queries]]|year=1970|volume=17|issue=10|pages=369–371|doi= 10.1093/nq/17-10-369}}</ref>

==Mathematics==
* [[Jean-Robert Argand]] introduces the [[Argand diagram]].<ref name=Crilly>{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|url=https://archive.org/details/50mathematicalid0000cril|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8}}</ref>
* [[Adrien-Marie Legendre]] gives the first published application of the method of [[least squares]], in a supplement to his {{Lang|fr|Nouvelles méthodes pour la détermination des orbites des comètes}}.<ref name=Crilly/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|first=Jean|last=Itard|title=Legendre, Adrien-Marie|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902535.html|encyclopedia=[[Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography]]|location=New York|year=2008|accessdate=2012-01-23}}</ref>

==Medicine==
* [[John Bell (surgeon)|John Bell]] concludes publication of ''The Principles of Surgery'' in two volumes (1801–06). Its treatment of arterial surgery in particular ranks him as a founder of [[vascular surgery]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=K. Grudzien|last=Baston|title=Bell, John (1763–1820)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2013|accessdate=2011-04-06|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/2013}} </ref> His brother [[Charles Bell]] publishes ''Essays on The Anatomy of Expression in Painting''.

==Technology==
* October 7 – [[Carbon paper]] [[patent]]ed by [[Ralph Wedgwood (inventor)|Ralph Wedgwood]] in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Copley Medal]]: [[Thomas Andrew Knight]]<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==
* January 14 – [[Matthew Fontaine Maury]], American oceanographer (died [[1873 in science|1873]])
* February 14 – [[Joseph-François Malgaigne]], French surgeon (died [[1865 in science|1865]])
* February 18 – [[Eduard Heis]], German mathematician and astronomer (died [[1877 in science|1877]])
* April 9 – [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]], British civil engineer (died [[1859 in science|1859]])
* June 12 – [[John A. Roebling]], German American bridge engineer (died [[1869 in science|1869]])
* June 27 – [[Augustus De Morgan]], British logician (died [[1871 in science|1871]])
* November 21 – [[Alexander Henry Haliday]], Irish entomologist (died [[1870 in science|1870]])
* December 11
** [[Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich]], German geologist (died [[1886 in science|1886]])
** [[Alfred Swaine Taylor]], English toxicologist, "father of British forensic medicine" (died [[1880 in science|1880]])
* [[Luther V. Bell]], American psychiatric physician (died [[1862 in science|1862]])

==Deaths==
* c. January?? – [[Mungo Park (explorer)|Mungo Park]], Scottish explorer of West Africa (born [[1771 in science|1771]])
* April 5 – [[Benjamin Bell]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] surgeon (born [[1749 in science|1749]])
* June 23 – [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]], [[French people|French]] [[zoologist]] (born [[1723 in science|1723]])
* August 3 – [[Michel Adanson]], French [[botanist]] (born [[1727 in science|1727]])
* August 23 – [[Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]], French [[physicist]] (born [[1736 in science|1736]])
* October 9 – [[Benjamin Banneker]], [[African-American]] [[astronomer]] and surveyor (born [[1731 in science|1731]])

==References==
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