1726 in science

Botany

• October 27 – Caleb Threlkeld publishes Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta in Dublin, the first flora of Ireland.

Medicine

• 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

• For clocks, the gridiron pendulum is developed by English clockmaker 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.

Publications

• Johann Beringer publishes Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis describing hoax fossils.

Births

• February 6 – Patrick Russell, Scottish-born surgeon and herpetologist (died 1805)
• June 3 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (died 1797)
• June 25 - Lady Anne Monson, English botanist (died 1776)
• Thomas Melvill, Scottish natural philosopher (died 1753)

Deaths

• January 25 – Guillaume Delisle, French scientist, a founder of modern geography (born 1675)

References

References

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2. Williams, Hywel. (2005). "Cassell's Chronology of World History". Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
3. Gould, Stephen Jay. (2000). "[[The Lying Stones of Marrakech]]". Random House|Harmony Books.