Dutch physician
Willem ten Rhijne publishes Dissertatio de Arthritide: Mantissa Schematica: De Acupunctura in London, introducing the West to
acupuncture and
moxibustion.
May 24 – The
Ashmolean Museum opens in
Broad Street, Oxford (England) as the world's first purpose-built university museum,[4] including accommodation for the teaching of natural philosophy and a chemistry laboratory. Naturalist Dr.
Robert Plot is the first keeper and first professor of chemistry.
Dutch physician
Willem ten Rhijne publishes Dissertatio de Arthritide: Mantissa Schematica: De Acupunctura in London, introducing the West to
acupuncture and
moxibustion.
May 24 – The
Ashmolean Museum opens in
Broad Street, Oxford (England) as the world's first purpose-built university museum,[4] including accommodation for the teaching of natural philosophy and a chemistry laboratory. Naturalist Dr.
Robert Plot is the first keeper and first professor of chemistry.