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Overview of the events of 1797 in science
The year 1797 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Lagrange publishes his Théorie des fonctions analytiques .October 22 – André-Jacques Garnerin carries out the first descent using a frameless parachute, a 980 m (3,200 feet) drop from a balloon in Paris. Frederick William Hope Charles Lyell January 3 – Frederick William Hope , British zoologist (died 1862 )
January 4 – Wilhelm Beer , Prussian astronomer (died 1850 )
February – Joseph-Alphonse Adhémar , French mathematician (died 1862 )
February 2 – Joseph Guislain , Flemish psychiatrist (died 1860 )
February 5 – Jean-Marie Duhamel , French mathematician and physicist (died 1872 )
March 10 – George Poulett Scrope , British geologist and economist (died 1876 )
March 21 – Johann Andreas Wagner , German paleontologist , zoologist and archeologist (died 1861 )
April 29 – George Don , Scottish botanist (died 1856 )
May 2 – Abraham Gesner , Canadian inventor of kerosene (died 1864 )
May 30 – Karl Friedrich Naumann , German geologist and mineralogist (died 1873 )
July 14 – James Scott Bowerbank , British naturalist , geologist and paleontologist (died 1877 )
July 26 – William Hutton , British geologist and paleontologist (died 1860 )
August 23 – Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant , French mechanician and mathematician (died 1886 )
August 31 – James Ferguson , Scottish-born American astronomer (died 1867 )
September 1 – Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut , French chemist (died 1881 )
September 10 – Carl Gustaf Mosander , Swedish chemist (died 1858 )
September 17 – Heinrich Kuhl , German zoologist (died 1821 )
October 4 – Félix Savary , French astronomer (died 1841 )
October 5 – John Gardner Wilkinson , British egyptologist (died 1875 )
November 14 – Charles Lyell , Scottish geologist (died 1875 )
November 20 - Mary Buckland , British paleontologist and marine biologist (died 1857 )
December 3
December 17 – Joseph Henry , American scientist (died 1878 )
December 23 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu , French botanist (died 1853 ) 
