18th Century
- 1747 – James Lind: Conducts one of the earliest European clinical trials, showing that scurvy was cured by consuming fresh oranges and lemons, but not other tested acids or drinks
- 1774 – Charles Mason: Conducts an experiment near the Scottish mountain of Schiehallion that attempts to measure the mean density of the Earth for the first time. Known as the Schiehallion experiment
- 1796 – Edward Jenner: tests the first vaccine
- 1798 – Henry Cavendish: Torsion bar experiment to measure the gravitational constant
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