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PHYSICS

James Bradley uses stellar Aberration to calculate the Speed Of Light to be approximately 301 000 km/s

BIRTHS

September 3 - Matthew Boulton , engineer (died 1809 )

October 27 - James Cook , Explorer (died 1779 )

John Hunter , Scottish surgeon, pathologist, and comparative anatomist (died 1793 )

Joseph Black , Scottish physicist and chemist (died 1799 )

DEATHS