1747 In Science

Anatomy

• Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), with the help of the artist Wandelaar (1691-1759), produced the most exact account of the bones and muscles of the human body
• Albrecht von Haller publishes Experiments in the Anatomy of Respiration

Mathematics

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses partial differential equations in mathematical physics

Awards

• Copley Medal: Gowin Wright

Births

• Johann Elert Bode, astronomer (died 1826)
• Baron Sigmund Zois von Edelstein (Baron von Zois), Slovenian geologist, after whom zoisite is named (died 1819)

Deaths

• Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist, botanical artist, and physician who studied and produced several papers on cryptogams (lower plants that do not have seeds or flowers), such as mosses and algae (born 1687)
• Johann Heinrich von Heucher, German botanist, after whom the genus heuchera is named (born 1677)

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