1733 in science
The year 1733 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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 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 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
- February 19 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist
- March 13 – Joseph Priestley, English chemist
- March 17 – Carsten Niebuhr, Danish cartographer, surveyor and traveller
- May 4 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
- May 22 – Alexander Monro, Scottish anatomist
- July 27 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer