See also: 1746 in science, other events of 1747, 1748 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Anatomy 2 Mathematics 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

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

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

• Copley Medal: Gowin Wright

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