1747 in science
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The year 1747 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Anatomy
- Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770), with the help of the artist Jan Wandelaar (1691–1759), produces the most exact account of the bones and muscles of the human body in Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani.
- Albrecht von Haller publishes Experiments in the Anatomy of Respiration.
[edit] Engineering
- École royale des ponts et chaussées established in Paris under Jean-Rodolphe Perronet.
[edit] Mathematics
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses partial differential equations in mathematical physics.
[edit] Medicine
- James Lind undertakes one of the first controlled experiments in clinical medicine, on the effect of citrus fruit as a cure for scurvy.[1]
[edit] Physics
- July 2 - Benjamin Robins presents a paper to the Royal Society describing the physics of a spinning projectile following his investigation of rifle barrels.[2][3]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 19 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (d. 1826)
- November 23 - Baron Sigmund Zois von Edelstein (Baron von Zois), Slovenian geologist after whom zoisite is named (d. 1819)
[edit] Deaths
- April 2 - 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 (b. 1687)
- August 8 - Mårten Triewald, Swedish mechanical engineer (b. 1691)
- Johann Heinrich von Heucher, German botanist, after whom the genus heuchera is named (b. 1677)
[edit] References
- ^ Carlisle, Rodney (2004). Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries. New Jersey: Wiley. p. 393. ISBN 0471244104.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 311–312. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ "Long Range Shooting, An Historical Perspective (2)". http://www.lrml.org/historical/longrange/history02.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-27.