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

Contents 1 Medicine 2 Physics 3 Births 4 Deaths

[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)

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