It was used again in 1766 in a work entitled "Philosophiae naturalis sive physicae: tomus III, continens geologian, biologian, phytologian generalis", by Michael Christoph Hanov, a disciple of Christian Wolff.
Latinska oblika izraza se je prvič pojavila leta 1736, ko je Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) uporabil "biologi" v svojem delu "Bibliotheca botanica".