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1728 in science
1727
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Fields
Archaeology
Technology
Sustainable energy research
Transportation technology
Social sciences
Psychology
Governance and policy studies
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Dinosaurs' extinction
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The year
1728 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
James Bradley
uses
stellar aberration
(first observed in
1725
) to calculate the
speed of light
to be approximately 301,000 km/s.
[1]
James Bradley observes
nutation of the Earth's axis
.
[1]
Botany
September –
Bartram's Garden
, the oldest surviving
botanic garden
in
North America
, is established in
Philadelphia
by
John Bartram
.
Exploration
July 14 – August 14 –
Vitus Bering
sails northward from the
Kamchatka Peninsula
, through the
Bering Strait
, and rounds
Cape Dezhnev
.
Physiology and medicine
Pierre Fauchard
publishes
Le Chirurgien Dentiste, ou, Traité des Dents
, the first comprehensive text on dentistry, including the first description of
orthodontic
braces.
[2]
Births
February 13 –
John Hunter
,
Scottish
surgeon
,
pathologist
and comparative
anatomist
(died
1793
)
March 20 –
Samuel-Auguste Tissot
,
Swiss
physician
(died
1797
)
April 16 –
Joseph Black
, Scottish
physicist
and
chemist
(died
1799
)
August 26 –
Johann Heinrich Lambert
, Swiss
polymath
(died
1777
)
September 3 –
Matthew Boulton
,
English
mechanical engineer
(died
1809
)
October 27 –
James Cook
, English
explorer
(died
1779
)
Deaths
April 25 –
John Woodward
, English
naturalist
(born
1665
)
August 11 –
William Sherard
, English
botanist
(born
1659
)
Caleb Threlkeld
,
Irish
botanist (born
1676
)
References
^
a
b
Delambre, J. B.
(1827).
Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle
. Paris: Bachelier.
^
Spielman, Andrew I. (October 2007). "The Birth of the Most Important 18th Century Dental Text: Pierre Fauchard's
Le Chirurgien Dentist
".
Journal of Dental Research
.
86
(10): 922–926.
doi
:
10.1177/154405910708601004
.
PMID
17890667
.
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