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The year 1729 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

• English optician Chester Moor Hall (1703-1771) develops an achromatic lens (or achromat) commonly used as the objective of small refractor telescopes.
• January 9, January 16 - James Bradley, in a letter written to Edmond Halley FRS, describes his discovery of aberration of starlight to the Royal Society.^[1]

Mathematics

• Andrew Motte publishes The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, the first English translation of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (originally published 1687, Motte translated the 1726 edition).^[2]

Physics

• Stephen Gray discovers electrical conduction.^[3]

Births

• January 12 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (died 1799)
• November 11 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (died 1811)

Deaths

• January 31 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (born 1659)
• March 2 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (born 1662)
• August 5 - Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (born 1664)
• December 1 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (born 1665)

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