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

Astronomy

  • James Bradley uses stellar aberration (first observed in 1725) to calculate the speed of light to be approximately 301,000&nbsp;km/s.
  • James Bradley observes nutation of the Earth's axis.

Births

  • February 13 – John Hunter, Scottish surgeon, pathologist and comparative anatomist (died 1793)
  • March 20 – Samuel-Auguste Tissot, Swiss physician (died 1797)
  • April 16 – Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist (died 1799)
  • August 26 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss polymath (died 1777)
  • September 3 – Matthew Boulton, English mechanical engineer (died 1809)
  • October 27 – James Cook, English explorer (died 1779)

Deaths

  • April 25 – John Woodward, English naturalist (born 1665)
  • August 11 – William Sherard, English botanist (born 1659)
  • Caleb Threlkeld, Irish botanist (born 1676)

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