1822 in science

Events

September 27th: Jean-François Champollion exposes in front of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities its work of deciphering of the hieroglyphic writing . It is able to decipher the hiéroglyphes thanks to the Pierre de Rosette (see also: Letter with Mr. Dacier).

Rémusat founds the Asian Société French.

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce obtains the first image of the reproduction by the light (ancestor of the Photographie).
the American surgeon William Beaumont begins her study of the gastric process.
the British doctor Gideon Mantell discovers the first fossils of dinosaur: teeth of a Iguanodon.
Jacob Grimm, Tale ur and German linguist, develops the sound law which bears its name.

Publications

the analytical theory of heat , Baker.

Births

Death

May 9th: Paolo Ruffini, Mathematician Italy N.

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