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GEOLOGY

Edmund Halley suggests using the salinity and evaporation of the Mediterranean to determine the age of the Earth

BIRTHS

January 28 - Charles Marie De La Condamine , French geographer (died 1774 )

November 27 - Anders Celsius , Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (died 1744 )

DEATHS