The year 1726 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Botany edit
- October 27 – Caleb Threlkeld publishes Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta in Dublin, the first flora of Ireland.[1]
Medicine edit
- A faculty of medicine is formally established at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, a predecessor of the University of Edinburgh Medical School. John Rutherford becomes Professor of Practice of Medicine.
Technology edit
- For clocks, the gridiron pendulum is developed by John Harrison, as a pendulum that compensates for temperature errors: a grid of alternating brass and steel rods is arranged so that the expansion due to heat is dissipated.[2]
Publications edit
- Johann Beringer publishes Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis describing hoax fossils.[3]
Births edit
- February 6 – Patrick Russell, Scottish-born surgeon and herpetologist (died 1805)
- June 3 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (died 1797)
- Thomas Melvill, Scottish natural philosopher (died 1753)
- date unknown - Lady Anne Monson, English botanist (died 1776)
Deaths edit
- January 25 – Guillaume Delisle, French scientist, one of the founders of modern geography (born 1675)
References edit
- ^ Nelson, E. Charles (1978). "The Publication Date of the First Irish Flora, Caleb Threlkeld's Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum, 1726". Glasra. 2: 37–42. Archived from the original on 2013-06-02. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Gould, Stephen Jay (2000). The Lying Stones of Marrakech. New York: Random House|Harmony Books. ISBN 0-609-60142-3.