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| 1785 |
| | | James Hutton describes to the Royal Society of Edinburgh his studies of local rocks , launching the era of scientific geology | |
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| 1785 |
| | | William Withering's Account of the Foxglove describes the use of digitalis for dropsy, and its possible application to heart disease | |
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| 1787 |
| | | French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier publishes a system for classifying and naming chemical substances | |
|  | Antoine and Marie Lavoisier in their laboratory
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1794 |
| | | In his Science of Knowledge Johann Gottlieb Fichte contrasts the I, or Ego, and its opposing non-I, or non-Ego | |
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| 1796 |
| | | In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination | |
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| 1796 |
| | | French astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes his nebular hypothesis, arguing that the planets formed from a mass of incandescent gas | |
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| 1796 |
| | | German physician Samuel Hahnemann coins the term 'homeopathy' and describes this new approach to medicine | |
|  | Conflict between homeopathic and allopathic medicine
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon's soldiers discover a black basalt slab, the Rosetta Stone, near the village of Rashid in Egypt | |
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| 1799 |
| | | English surveyor William Smith compiles a manuscript, Order of the Strata, revealing chronology through fossils in rocks | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Italian physicist Alessandro Volta describes to the Royal Society in London how his 'pile' of discs can produce electric current | |
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