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1727 in science
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<h2 id="astronomy">Astronomy</h2> <ul><li>Maharaja <a href="/facts/Jai_Singh_II/6h58amPY">Jai Singh II</a> begins construction of the <a href="/facts/Jantar_Mantar_(Jaipur)/GFkUrBt2">Jantar Mantar</a> <a href="/facts/Observatory/y0FVg7vS">observatory</a> at <a href="/facts/Jaipur/WDLq2DmH">Jaipur</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="biology">Biology</h2> <ul><li>Rev. <a href="/facts/Stephen_Hales/L2gfoWaq">Stephen Hales</a> publishes <i>Vegetable Staticks</i>, containing an account of key experiments in <a href="/facts/Plant_physiology/zAh2o1Ao">plant physiology</a>; and makes the first measurement of <a href="/facts/Blood_pressure/VtqqSM2J">blood pressure</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="mathematics">Mathematics</h2> <ul><li>This year's <a href="/facts/French_Academy_of_Sciences/zF42DYQv">French Academy of Sciences</a> prize is based on a problem on the masting of ships: to calculate the number of masts to use and where in the ship to locate them. <a href="/facts/Pierre_Bouguer/d7tuYCxr">Pierre Bouguer</a> gains the award for his paper <i>On the masting of ships</i>; and two other prizes, one for his dissertation <i>On the best method of observing the altitude of stars at sea</i> and the other for his paper <i>On the best method of observing the variation of the compass at sea</i>. The 19-year-old <a href="/facts/Euler/z2fsbjgj">Euler</a> enters for the prize with an essay written in 1726 and published in 1728.</li></ul> <h2 id="optics">Optics</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Eyeglasses/ER3sFKmJ">Eyeglasses</a>, with side pieces that rest on the ears, are invented by Englishman <a href="/facts/Edward_Scarlett/e6kJP9sM">Edward Scarlett</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="pharmacology">Pharmacology</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Elizabeth_Gooking_Greenleaf/xUPCBbKw">Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf</a> opens an <a href="/facts/Apothecary/uAvlhvwS">apothecary</a> shop in <a href="/facts/Boston/exjfn6xf">Boston</a>, Massachusetts, the first woman to so practice in America.</li></ul> <h2 id="other-events">Other events</h2> <ul><li>The <a href="/facts/Kilt/BrsYNpGp">kilt</a> is invented by <a href="/facts/Thomas_Rawlinson_(industrialist)/CK7AWdkN">Thomas Rawlinson</a>, the English owner of an ironworks, who designs it as a cheap uniform for better maneuverability around machinery. Ian MacDonnel of <a href="/facts/Glengarry/chyf1GPr">Glengarry</a> adopts the garment along with his clansmen, and the kilt is worn throughout the Highlands by 1745.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>March 19 – <a href="/facts/Ferdinand_Berthoud/BbaCfTIz">Ferdinand Berthoud</a>, Swiss clockmaker and maker of scientific instruments (died <a href="/facts/1807_in_science/zND9k1K3">1807</a>)</li> <li>April 7 – <a href="/facts/Michel_Adanson/G7eWPH8l">Michel Adanson</a>, French botanist (died <a href="/facts/1806_in_science/q3CoyVIt">1806</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>March 31 – <a href="/facts/Isaac_Newton/4L7gTncN">Isaac Newton</a>, English <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> and <a href="/facts/Mathematician/eaFSR8Fx">mathematician</a> (born <a href="/facts/1643_in_science/TDaA62ms">1643</a>)</li> <li>March 22 – <a href="/facts/Johann_Leonhard_Rost/6fpN7gNM">Johann Leonhard Rost</a>, German <a href="/facts/Astronomer/ronF8j4a">astronomer</a> (born <a href="/facts/1688_in_science/onmSJjwe">1688</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Forssmann, Werner. Nobel Lecture in Physiology or Medicine, 1956. <a href="/wiki/Werner_Forssmann" target="_blank">/wiki/Werner_Forssmann</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>