1728 in science

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

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Medicine
3 Exploration
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References

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]

Medicine

Orthodontic braces are invented.

Exploration

July 14–August 14 - Vitus Bering sails northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula, through the Bering Strait, and rounds Cape Dezhnev.

Births

February 13 - John Hunter, Scottish surgeon, pathologist, and comparative anatomist (died 1793)
April 16 - Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist (died 1799)
September 3 - Matthew Boulton, mechanical engineer (died 1809)
October 27 - James Cook, English explorer (died 1779)
Samuel-Auguste Tissot, Swiss physician (died 1797)

Deaths

August 11 - William Sherard, English botanist (born 1659)

References

^ ^a ^b Delambre, J. B. (1827). Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle. Paris: Bachelier.