1733 in science

Physiology and medicine

• Rev. Stephen Hales publishes Hæmastaticks, the second volume of his Statical Essays, in London, containing the results of his experiments in measuring blood pressure.

Inventions

• May 26 – The flying shuttle loom is patented by John Kay, making weaving faster and increasing demand for yarn.
• The perambulator or pram (a baby carriage) is invented by English architect William Kent for children of the 3rd Duke of Devonshire.
• The achromatic refracting lens is invented by English barrister Chester Moore Hall.

Mathematics

• Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri studies what geometry would be like if the parallel postulate (Euclid's fifth) were false.
• Abraham de Moivre introduces the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution in probability.

Births

• January 18 – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff, German surgeon and physiologist (died 1794)
• February 19 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (died 1782)
• March 13 – Joseph Priestley, English chemist (died 1804)
• March 17 – Carsten Niebuhr, Danish cartographer, surveyor and traveller (died 1815)
• May 4 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (died 1799)
• May 22 – Alexander Monro, Scottish anatomist (died 1817)
• July 27 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (died 1779)

Deaths

• June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss natural historian (born 1672)

References

References

1. Lewis, O.. (December 1994). "Stephen Hales and the measurement of blood pressure". Journal of Human Hypertension.
2. Williams, Hywel. (2005). "Cassell's Chronology of World History". Weidenfeld & Nicolson.