Editing 1732 in science (section)

==Exploration==
* March 3 – [[English people|English]] Captain [[Gough-Calthorpe family|Charles Gough]] rediscovers [[Gough Island]] in the [[South Atlantic]].<ref>Gough's log is preserved in the East India Collection at the British Library; the entry for this date is printed in {{cite book|last=Wright|first=Gabriel|title=A new nautical directory for the East-India and China navigation|date=1804|publisher=W. Gilbert|oclc=680511332|page=394}} See also {{cite journal|last1=Heaney|first1=J. B.|last2=Holdgate|first2=M. W.|year=1957|title=The Gough Island Scientific Survey|journal=[[The Geographical Journal]]|volume=123|jstor=1790718|pages=20–31|doi=10.2307/1790719}}</ref>
* August – [[Mikhail Gvozdev]] with navigator [[Ivan Fyodorov (navigator)|Ivan Fyodorov]] in the ''Sviatoi Gavriil'' make the first known crossing of the [[Bering Strait]], from [[Cape Dezhnev]] to [[Cape Prince of Wales]], and explore the [[Alaska]]n coast.<ref>{{cite web|title=Иван Федоров и Михаил Гвоздев|work=Иван Федоров и Михаил Гвоздев|url=http://www.ivki.ru/kapustin/person/fedorov/fedorov.htm|access-date=2012-04-16|archive-date=2017-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170618211020/http://www.ivki.ru/kapustin/person/fedorov/fedorov.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>