1752 in science
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The year 1752 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Biology
- Establishment of Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, the world's oldest zoo.[1]
Chemistry
- Thomas Melvill delivers a lecture entitled Observations on light and colours to the Medical Society of Edinburgh, a precursor of flame emission spectroscopy.
- Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov and Mikhail Lomonosov advertise the first hard-paste porcelain to be produced in Russia.[2]
Mathematics
- Euler gives his formula for the number of faces, edges and vertices in a polyhedron.[3]
Medicine
- Foundation of what will become the Manchester Royal Infirmary as a cottage hospital in Garden Street, Manchester, England, by Charles White (surgeon).[4]
- John Pringle publishes Observations on the Diseases of the Army in Camp and Garrison in London, a pioneering text in modern military medicine.
- Approximate date â James Ayscough begins experimenting with tinted lenses in spectacles.
Physics
- Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment determines that lightning is an electrical phenomenon.[5]
Awards
Births
- May 9 â Antonio Scarpa, Italian anatomist (died 1832)
- May 11 â Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physiologist and anthropologist (died 1840)
- July 6 â John Sheldon, English anatomist (died 1808)
- July 7 â Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (died 1834)
- July 23 â Marc-Auguste Pictet, Swiss physicist (died 1825)
- September 18 â Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (died 1833)
- Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, French naturalist (died 1804)
Deaths
- January 4 â Gabriel Cramer, Genevan mathematician (born 1704)
- February 9 â Frederik Hasselquist, Swedish traveller and naturalist (born 1722)
- April 10 â William Cheselden, surgeon (born 1688)