Biology
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck publishes Système des animaux sans vertèbres in Paris, a major work on the classification of the group of animals he is the first to describe as invertebrates. He is also first to separate the classes of arachnids and crustaceans from insects.
- André Michaux publishes Histoire des chênes de l'Amerique septentrionale ("History of the oaks of North America").
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