1728 in science
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The year 1728 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Medicine
- Orthodontic braces were invented.
[edit] Physics
- James Bradley uses stellar aberration to calculate the speed of light to be approximately 301 000 km/s
[edit] 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)
