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The year '''1727 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* Maharaja [[Jai Singh II]] begins construction of the [[Jantar Mantar (Jaipur)|Jantar Mantar]] [[observatory]] at [[Jaipur]].

==Biology==
* Rev. [[Stephen Hales]] publishes ''Vegetable Staticks'', containing an account of key experiments in [[plant physiology]]; and makes the first measurement of [[blood pressure]].<ref>[[Werner Forssmann|Forssmann, Werner]]. Nobel Lecture in Physiology or Medicine, 1956.</ref>

==Mathematics==
* This year's [[French Academy of Sciences]] prize is based on a problem on the masting of ships: to calculate the number of masts to use and where in the ship to locate them. [[Pierre Bouguer]] gains the award for his paper ''On the masting of ships''; and two other prizes, one for his dissertation ''On the best method of observing the altitude of stars at sea'' and the other for his paper ''On the best method of observing the variation of the compass at sea''. The 19-year-old [[Euler]] enters for the prize with an essay written in 1726 and published in 1728.

==Optics==
* [[Eyeglasses]], with side pieces that rest on the ears, are invented by Englishman [[Edward Scarlett]].

==Pharmacology==
* [[Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf]] opens an [[apothecary]] shop in [[Boston]], Massachusetts, the first woman to so practice in America.

==Other events==
* The [[kilt]] is invented by [[Thomas Rawlinson (industrialist)|Thomas Rawlinson]], the English owner of an ironworks, who designs it as a cheap uniform for better maneuverability around machinery. Ian MacDonnel of [[Glengarry]] adopts the garment along with his clansmen, and the kilt is worn throughout the Highlands by 1745.

==Births==
* March 19 – [[Ferdinand Berthoud]], Swiss clockmaker and maker of scientific instruments (died [[1807 in science|1807]])
* April 7 – [[Michel Adanson]], French botanist (died [[1806 in science|1806]])

==Deaths==
* March 31 – [[Isaac Newton]], English [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]] (born [[1643 in science|1643]])
* March 22 – [[Johann Leonhard Rost]], German [[astronomer]] (born [[1688 in science|1688]])

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