Summer – English captain George Dixon begins a year-long exploration of the shores of modern-day British Columbia and southeastern Alaska. He spends the intervening winter in the Hawaiian Islands, where he becomes the first European to visit the island of Molokaʻi.[1]
Erland Samuel Bring publishes Meletemata quaedam mathematica circa transformationem aequationum algebraicarum, proposing algebraic solutions to quintic functions.
Ignaz von Born introduces a method of extracting metals using the patio process in his Ueber des Anquicken der gold- und silberhältigen Erze, published in Vienna.
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