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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 – 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 – Antonio Scarpa, Italian anatomist (died 1832)
- May 11 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physiologist and anthropologist (died 1840)
- July 6 – John Sheldon, English anatomist (died 1808)
- July 7 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (died 1834)
- July 23 – Marc-Auguste Pictet, Swiss physicist (died 1825)
- September 18 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (died 1833)
- Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, French naturalist (died 1804)
Deaths
- January 4 – Gabriel Cramer, Genevan mathematician (born 1704)
- February 9 – Frederik Hasselquist, Swedish traveller and naturalist (born 1722)
- April 10 – William Cheselden, surgeon (born 1688)
References
- ^ Pechlaner, Helmut; Schratter, Dagmar (2005). Von Kaiser bis Känguru: Neues zur Geschichte des ältesten Zoos der Welt. Vienna: Gerhard Heindl. ISBN 3-7003-1497-3.
- ^ "The Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory". The State Hermitage Museum. Archived from the original on 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 315–316. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Reported October 19 in The Pennsylvania Gazette.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
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