1726 in science

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The year 1726 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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For clocks, the gridiron pendulum is developed by John Harrison, as a pendulum that compensates for temperature errors: a grid of alternating brass and steel rods is arranged so that the heat is dissipated.^[1]

Johann Beringer publishes Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis describing hoax fossils.^[2]

January 25 - Guillaume Delisle, French scientist, one of the founders of modern geography (b. 1675)

^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Gould, Stephen Jay (2000). The Lying Stones of Marrakech. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-609-60142-3.