1725 in science
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The year 1725 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] History of science
- John Freind begins publication of The History of Physick, from the time of Galen to the beginning of the sixteenth century, chiefly with regard to practice, the first comprehensive history of medicine in English.
[edit] Mathematics
- The binary numeral system is invented by Basile Bouchon.
[edit] Technology
- Stereotype printing, a copying process, is developed by Scottish goldsmith William Ged. The concept later generates the word "stereotyping".
- The ocular Harpsichord, or clavecin oculaire, comprising a 6-foot square frame above a normal harpsichord, is invented by the Jesuit mathematician and physicist Father Louis-Bertrand Castel. No illustrations of it remain.
[edit] Births
- February 4 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
- May 23 - Robert Bakewell, English agriculturalist and geneticist (d. 1795)
- September 16 - Nicolas Desmarest, French naturalist (d. 1815)
- September 25 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French mechanical engineer (d. 1804)
