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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 (publication)|flora]] of [[Ireland]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nelson|first=E. Charles|year=1978|title=The Publication Date of the First Irish Flora, Caleb Threlkeld's ''Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum'', 1726|journal=Glasra|volume=2|pages=37–42|url=http://www.botanicgardens.ie/glasra/2_3.htm|accessdate=2012-10-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602223510/http://www.botanicgardens.ie/glasra/2_3.htm|archive-date=2013-06-02|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==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 (physician)|John Rutherford]] becomes Professor of Practice of Medicine.

==Technology==
* 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 expansion due to heat is [[wikt:dissipate|dissipated]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8}}</ref>

==Publications==
* [[Johann Beringer]] publishes ''Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis'' describing [[hoax]] fossils.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gould|first=Stephen Jay|authorlink=Stephen Jay Gould|title=[[The Lying Stones of Marrakech]]|location=New York|publisher=Random House&#124;Harmony Books|year=2000|isbn=0-609-60142-3}}</ref>

==Births==
* February 6 – [[Patrick Russell (herpetologist)|Patrick Russell]], Scottish-born surgeon and herpetologist (died [[1805 in science|1805]])
* June 3 – [[James Hutton]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[geologist]] (died [[1797 in science|1797]])
* [[Thomas Melvill]], Scottish [[Natural philosophy|natural philosopher]] (died [[1753 in science|1753]])
* ''date unknown'' - [[Lady Anne Monson]], English botanist (died [[1776 in science|1776]])

==Deaths==
* January 25 – [[Guillaume Delisle]], [[French people|French]] [[scientist]], one of the founders of modern [[geography]] (born [[1675 in science|1675]])

==References==
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