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The year 1825 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Astronomy
- Pierre-Simon Laplace completes his study of gravitation, the stability of the solar system, tides, the precession of the equinoxes, the libration of the Moon, and Saturn's rings in Mecanique Celeste
Chemistry
- Michael Faraday isolates benzene
- Hans Christian Ørsted produces metallic aluminium in an impure form
Mathematics
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy presents the Cauchy integral theorem for general integration paths—he assumes the function being integrated has a continuous derivative
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy introduces the theory of residues in complex analysis
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Adrien-Marie Legendre prove Fermat's last theorem for n = 5
- André-Marie Ampère discovers Stokes' theorem
Paleontology
- Georges Cuvier proposes his catastrophe theory as the cause of extinctions of large groups of animals
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire identifies Cuvier's fossil `crocodile´ as a teleosaurus
Technology
- September 27 - The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens
Awards
Births
- May 4 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley (d. 1895), English biologist.
Deaths
- October 6 - Bernard Germain Etienne (b. 1756), naturalist.
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