1752 in science

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The year 1752 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Biology 2 Chemistry 3 Electricity 4 Mathematics 5 Medicine 6 Awards 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 References

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]

Electricity

• Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment determines that lightning is an electrical phenomenon.

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]

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Pringle

Births

• May 9 - Antonio Scarpa, Italian anatomist (died 1832)
• May 11 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physiologist and anthropologist (died 1840)
• July 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (died 1834)
• September 18 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (died 1833)
• Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, French naturalist (died 1804)

Deaths

• January 4 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (born 1704)
• February 9 - Frederik Hasselquist, Swedish traveller and naturalist (born 1722)
• April 10 - William Cheselden, surgeon (born 1688)

References