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ANATOMY

Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), with the help of the artist Wandelaar (1691-1759), produced the most exact account of the Bone s and Muscle s 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

BIRTHS

January 19 - Johann Elert Bode , astronomer (died 1826 )

November 23 - Baron Sigmund Zois Von Edelstein (Baron von Zois), Slovenian geologist, after whom Zoisite is named (died 1819 )

Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre , French naturalist (died 1804 )

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 Moss es and Algae (born 1687 )

Johann Heinrich Von Heucher , German botanist, after whom the genus Heuchera is named (born 1677 )