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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]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lewis|first=O.|date=December 1994|title=Stephen Hales and the measurement of blood pressure|journal=Journal of Human Hypertension|volume=8|issue=12|pages=865–71|pmid=7884783}}</ref>

==Inventions==
* May 26 – The [[flying shuttle]] [[loom]] is [[patent]]ed by [[John Kay (flying shuttle)|John Kay]], making weaving faster and increasing demand for yarn.<ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/303|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/303 303–304]}}</ref>
* The perambulator or pram (a [[baby carriage]]) is invented by [[English people|English]] architect [[William Kent]] for children of the [[William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire|3rd Duke of Devonshire]].
* The [[achromatic lens|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]] ([[Euclid]]'s fifth) were false.
* [[Abraham de Moivre]] introduces the [[normal distribution]] to approximate the [[binomial distribution]] in [[probability]].

==Births==
* January 18 – [[Kaspar Friedrich Wolff]], [[German people|German]] [[surgeon]] and [[physiologist]] (died [[1794 in science|1794]])
* February 19 – [[Daniel Solander]], [[Swedes|Swedish]] [[botanist]] (died [[1782 in science|1782]])
* March 13 – [[Joseph Priestley]], [[English people|English]] [[chemist]] (died [[1804 in science|1804]])
* March 17 – [[Carsten Niebuhr]], [[Danes|Danish]] [[cartographer]], [[Surveyor (surveying)|surveyor]] and traveller (died [[1815 in science|1815]])
* May 4 – [[Jean-Charles de Borda]], [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]], [[physicist]], [[Political science|political scientist]], and sailor (died [[1799 in science|1799]])
* May 22 – [[Alexander Monro (secundus)|Alexander Monro]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[anatomist]] (died [[1817 in science|1817]])
* July 27 – [[Jeremiah Dixon]], English surveyor and [[astronomer]] (died [[1779 in science|1779]])

==Deaths==
* June 23 – [[Johann Jakob Scheuchzer]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[natural historian]] (born [[1672 in science|1672]])

==References==
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