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The year1732 inscience andtechnology involved some significant events.

Chemistry

Herman Boerhaave publishes the authorized edition of hisElementa chemiae inLeiden.

Exploration

March 3 –English CaptainCharles Gough rediscoversGough Island in theSouth Atlantic.^[1]
August –Mikhail Gvozdev with navigatorIvan Fyodorov in theSviatoi Gavriil make the first known crossing of theBering Strait, fromCape Dezhnev toCape Prince of Wales, and explore theAlaskan coast.^[2]

Metrology

French astronomer in Russian serviceJoseph-Nicolas Delisle invents theDelisle scale for measuring temperature (recalibrated in1738).

Technology

Henri Pitot develops thePitot tube used for measuring flow velocity under theSeine bridges.
The world's firstlightship is moored at theNore in theThames Estuary of England.^[3]

Awards

Copley Medal:Stephen Gray^[4]

Births

January 11 –Peter Forsskål,Finnish naturalist (died1763)
October 6 –Nevil Maskelyne,English Astronomer Royal (died1811)
October 24 –Cristina Roccati, Italian scholar in physics (died1797)
Maria Christina Bruhn,Swedish inventor, (died1802)

Deaths

January 17 –John Horsley,British archaeologist (born c.1685)

References

^Gough's log is preserved in the East India Collection at the British Library; the entry for this date is printed inWright, Gabriel (1804).A new nautical directory for the East-India and China navigation. W. Gilbert. p. 394.OCLC 680511332. See alsoHeaney, J. B.; Holdgate, M. W. (1957). "The Gough Island Scientific Survey".The Geographical Journal.123:20–31.doi:10.2307/1790719.JSTOR 1790718.
^"Иван Федоров и Михаил Гвоздев".Иван Федоров и Михаил Гвоздев. Archived fromthe original on 2017-06-18. Retrieved2012-04-16.
^"Trinity House – Lightvessels".PortCities London. Retrieved2013-10-15.
^"Copley Medal | British scientific award".Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved21 July 2020.

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