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      The year 1777 in science and technology involved some significant events.


      Exploration


      March – Third voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain Cook discovers Mangaia and Atiu in the Cook Islands.


      Mathematics


      Leonhard Euler introduces the symbol i to represent the square root of −1.


      Technology


      probable date – Thomas Arnold of London produces the first watch ("Arnold 36") to be called a chronometer.


      Awards


      Copley Medal: John Mudge


      Births


      February 12 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist (died 1838)
      April 30 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (died 1855)
      May 4 – Louis Jacques Thénard, French chemist (died 1857)
      May 18 – John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist and entomologist (died 1852)
      August 14 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (died 1851)


      Deaths


      September 22 – John Bartram, naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany" (born 1699)
      September 25 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss polymath (born 1728)
      December 7 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born 1708)
      Celia Grillo Borromeo, Italian scientist and mathematician (born 1684)


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