1726 in science

none thumb|right | alt=Russell Patrick (1726–1805), surgeon and herpetologis | Russell Patrick (1726–1805), surgeon and herpetologis 1726 science 1726 The year 1726 in science and technology involved some significant events. 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.Nelson E. Charles 1978 The Publication Date of the First Irish Flora, Caleb Threlkeld's Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum, 1726 Glasra 2 37–42 http://www.botanicgardens.ie/glasra/2_3.htm 2012-10-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20130602223510/http://www.botanicgardens.ie/glasra/2_3.htm 2013-06-02 dead 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.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 Publications Johann Beringer publishes Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis describing hoax fossils.Gould Stephen Jay Stephen Jay Gould The Lying Stones of Marrakech New York Random House|Harmony Books 2000 0-609-60142-3 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 Category:18th century in science Category:1720s in science