1729 in science
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The year 1729 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- English optician Chester Moor Hall (1703-1771) develops an achromatic lens (or achromat) commonly used as the objective of small refractor telescopes.
- January 9, January 16 - James Bradley, in a letter written to Edmond Halley FRS, describes his discovery of aberration of starlight to the Royal Society.[1]
[edit] Mathematics
- Andrew Motte publishes The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, the first English translation of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (originally published 1687, Motte translated the 1726 edition).[2]
[edit] Physics
- Stephen Gray discovers electrical conduction.[3]
[edit] Births
- January 12 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (died 1799)
- November 11 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (died 1811)
[edit] Deaths
- January 31 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (born 1659)
- March 2 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (born 1662)
- August 5 - Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (born 1664)
- December 1 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (born 1665)
[edit] References
- ^ The date is clarified in Isis Vol. 16, No. 2 (Nov., 1931), "Discovery of the Aberration of Light". The relevant page can be seen at [1].
- ^ Steinbock, R. Ted (2006). Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution. Centre College.
- ^ Westfall, Richard S.. Gray, Stephen. The Galileo Project.
