1728 in science

1728 in science
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The year 1728 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1 Medicine
2 Physics
3 Births
4 Deaths

Medicine

Orthodontic braces were invented.

Physics

James Bradley uses stellar aberration to calculate the speed of light to be approximately 301 000 km/s

Births

September 3 - Matthew Boulton, engineer (died 1809)
October 27 - James Cook, explorer (died 1779)
John Hunter, Scottish surgeon, pathologist, and comparative anatomist (died 1793)
Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist (died 1799)

Deaths

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