1812 in science

Events

• Frederic Koenig invents the cylindrical press.

• the first Works gas by Transformation of the coal gross (simultaneous production of coal gas and coke) opens with London.

Publications

• the French naturalist and anatomist Georges Cuvier develops, according to the study of Fossile S, a theory catastrophist of the Histoire of the Earth. It publishes Recherches on the fossil bones .
• analytical Theory of the probabilities of Laplace.