See also: 1783 in science, other events of 1784, 1785 in science and the list of years in science.
Awards Copley Medal: Edward Waring Births Friedrich Bessel, mathematician (died 1846) William Buckland, geologist and paleontologist (died 1856) Deaths September 4 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (born 1714)
