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1713 in science

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The year 1713 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

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Mathematics

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Medicine

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  • William Cheselden publishes Anatomy of the Human Body and it becomes a popular work on anatomy, at least in part due to it being written in English rather than Latin.
  • Italian Bernardino Ramazzini provides one of the first descriptions of task-specific dystonia in his book of occupational diseases, Morbis Artificum,[3] noting in chapter II of its Supplementum that "Scribes and Notaries" may develop "incessant movement of the hand, always in the same direction … the continuous and almost tonic strain on the muscles... that results in failure of power in the right hand".

Physics

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Technology

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References

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  1. ^ "Orrery". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  2. ^ Walker, Paul (October 2005). "A Chronology of Game Theory". History of Game Theory. Archived from the original on 2000-08-15. Retrieved 2012-05-12.
  3. ^ Ramazzini B. Diseases of Workers. Translated from De Morbis Artificum of 1713 by Wilmer Cave Wright. New York: Haffner, 1964.