- 1871 in science
The year 1871 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Publications
* "Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe", by
Alexander von Humboldt , covers a large number of topics in scientific exploration and inventions.
* "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex " byCharles Darwin , outlining his theory for man's origins and his theory ofsexual selection .Awards
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Copley Medal :Julius Robert von Mayer
*Wollaston Medal for Geology:Andrew Ramsay Births
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Deaths
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May 11 -John Herschel (b. 1792),mathematician andastronomer .
*October 18 -Charles Babbage (b. 1791), Englishmathematician andinventor ofcomputing machines .
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