 the year 1860 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. ==astronomy== * july 18 â total solar eclipse. warren de la rue's photographs of this event, taken in spain, together with those of angelo secchi, demonstrate the solar character of the prominences or red flames seen around the limb of the moon during such an eclipse.bakerian lecture. philosophical transactions of the royal society (london) 152 pp.&nbsp;333â416. ==biology== * june 30 â debate about evolution at the oxford university museum. * john curtis publishes farm insects, being the natural history and economy of the insects injurious to the field crops of great britain and ireland... with suggestions for their destruction in glasgow. ==botany== * joseph dalton hooker concludes publication of the botany of the antarctic voyage of h.m. discovery ships erebus and terror ... 1839â1843 with issue of the final part of flora tasmaniae in london. ==chemistry== * september 3â5 â karlsruhe congress, the first international meeting of chemists. * marcellin berthelot rediscovers and names acetylene. * robert bunsen and gustav kirchhoff, using their newly improved spectroscope, discover and name caesium in mineral water from bad dÃ¼rkheim, germany. * stanislao cannizzaro, resurrecting avogadro's ideas regarding diatomic molecules, compiles a table of atomic weights and presents it at the 1860 karlsruhe congress, ending decades of conflicting atomic weights and molecular formulas, and leading to mendeleev's discovery of the periodic law.eric r. scerri,the periodic table: its story and its significance, oxford university press, 2006. * albert niemann makes a detailed analysis of the coca leaf, isolating and purifying the crystalline alkaloid which he calls cocaine.niemann, albert. on a new organic base in the coca leaves ("Ãber eine neue organische base in den cocablÃ¤ttern", published version of ph.d. dissertation); {{cite journal|volum
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