• The year 1887 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below. April – Carte du Ciel project initiated by Paris Observatory director...
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  • Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1887. 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    Science) is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche published in 1882, and followed by a second edition in 1887 after the completion of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and...
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  • The 1887 Yellow River flood in Qing China began in September 1887 and killed at least 930,000 people. It was the single deadliest flood in China, making...
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    Michelson–Morley experiment (category 1887 in science)
    April and July 1887 by American physicists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio...
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  • Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1887. June–July - Carl Humann works at Hierapolis. A local woman digging for sebakh at Amarna...
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    Petri dish (category 1887 in science)
    Koch in his private laboratory in 1881, as a precursor method. Petri, as assistant to Koch, at Berlin University made the final modifications in 1887 as...
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  • Photochemistry in a Protoplanetary Disk". Nature. 621 (7977): 56–59. arXiv:2401.03296. Bibcode:2023Natur.621...56B. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06307-x. hdl:1887/3716674...
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    Hatch Act of 1887". National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Retrieved 14 December 2022. "Hatch Act of 1887". College of Life Sciences and Agriculture...
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  • Löffler's medium (category 1887 in science)
    confirm the diagnosis. In 1887, Friedrich Loeffler devised a culture medium containing horse serum, meat infusion, and dextrose for use in the cultivation of...
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    of America. Originally, Köhler published the herbal in two volumes: the first in 1887, the second in 1890. Volume one is illustrated with 84 full-page,...
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    The year 1887 in film involved some significant events. Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film. Louis Le Prince's 16-lens camera...
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    to detail and scientific accuracy, especially in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). In 1887, the novel El anacronópete by Spanish author Enrique...
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  • in science 400s: 5th century in science 500s: 6th century in science 600s: 7th century in science 700s: 8th century in science 800s: 9th century in science...
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  • 1887 in Norwegian music 25 May – A fire during the 745th performance there of Mignon largely destroys the second Salle Favart, home of the Opéra-Comique...
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    The Great Southern Comet of 1887, or C/1887 B1 using its International Astronomical Union (IAU) designation, was a bright comet seen from the Southern...
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    Birds described in 1887 include African grey flycatcher, crested tit-warbler, scaly-breasted illadopsis, vega gull, Okinawa woodpecker, Ecuadorian cacique...
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    The history of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent begins with the prehistoric human activity of the Indus Valley Civilisation to the early...
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    by Melvil Dewey at Columbia University in 1887. Historically, library science has also included archival science. This includes: how information resources...
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    Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. Coleman, Mary Virginia (1887). The Science of Gynametry. Byrd & Pattillo. p. 40. Bennett, Ella Alvira (1914)...
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    Healing (1885) Defence of Christian Science (1885) No and Yes (1887) Rudiments and Rules of Divine Science (1887) Unity of Good and Unreality of Evil...
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    1887 (ch. 314, 24 Stat. 440, enacted 1887-03-02, 7 U.S.C. § 361a et seq.) gave federal funds, initially $15,000 each, to state land-grant colleges in...
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  • literary events and publications of 1887. February – Oscar Wilde publishes "The Canterville Ghost", his first short story, in The Court and Society Review....
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  • This is a list of Christians in science and technology. People in this list should have their Christianity as relevant to their notable activities or public...
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    A total solar eclipse occurred on 19 August 1887. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring...
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    Srinivasa Ramanujan (category 1887 births)
    Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial...
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  • The year 1887 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Construction work begins on Shrine of Our Lady of the...
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  • of Morals (1887) Friedrich Nietzsche advanced the thesis that the motive for the search for truth in sciences is a kind of ascetic ideal. In general, continental...
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  • Morehead State University (category Universities and colleges established in 1887)
    university in Morehead, Kentucky. The university began as Morehead Normal School, which opened its doors in 1887. The Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and...
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