1753 in science

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The year 1753 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Botany 3 Medicine 4 Technology 5 Awards 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 References

Astronomy

• Ruđer Bošković's De lunae atmosphaera demonstrates the lack of atmosphere on the Moon.^[1]

Botany

• May 1 - Publication of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum, the start of formal scientific classification of plants.^[2]

Medicine

• James Lind publishes the first edition of A Treatise on the Scurvy (although it was little noticed at this time).^[3]

Technology

• Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod, to ring a bell when struck by lightning, following the 1752 kite and key tests.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Benjamin Franklin

Births

• March 26 - Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Anglo-American physicist (died 1814)
• April 28 - Franz Karl Achard, chemist (died 1821)
• August 3 - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, British statesman and scientist (died 1816)

Deaths

• August 6 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (born 1711)
• Thomas Melvill, Scottish natural philosopher (born 1726)

References