The year 1858 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
June 2 – Donati's Comet, the first comet to be photographed, is discovered by Giovanni Battista Donati; it remains visible for several months afterwards.
Rudolf Virchow publishes Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begründung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebelehre: 20 Vorlesungen, gehalten während der Monate Februar, März und April 1858 im Pathologischen Institut zu Berlin.
George Bentham's Handbook of the British flora is published. This will be in use (in editions edited by Joseph Dalton Hooker) for a century.
Publication in London of Thomas B. Peacock'sOn Malformations, &c., of the Human Heart, with original cases which becomes a standard cardiology textbook.[13]
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