1753 in science

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

Astronomy

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

May 1 – Publication of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum, the start of formal scientific classification of plants.^[2]
June – Establishment in Florence of the Accademia dei Georgofili, the world's oldest society devoted to agronomy and scientific agriculture.

James Lind publishes the first edition of A Treatise on the Scurvy (although it is little noticed at this time).^[6]

Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod, to ring a bell when struck by lightning, following his 1752 kite and key tests.
George Semple uses hydraulic lime cement in rebuilding Essex Bridge in Dublin.^[7]

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)

↑ Энциклопедия для детей (астрономия). Москва: Аванта+. 1998. ISBN 978-5-89501-016-7.
↑ Date adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
↑ Geoffroy, C. F. (1753). "Sur Bismuth". Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences: 190. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
↑ Weeks, Mary Elvira (1932). "The discovery of the elements. II. Elements known to the alchemists". Journal of Chemical Education 9: 11. Bibcode:1932JChEd...9...11W. doi:10.1021/ed009p11.
↑ Hammond, C. R. (2004). "The Elements". CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (81st ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 4-1. ISBN 0-8493-0485-7.
↑ Bartholemew, M. (January 2002). "James Lind and Scurvy: a revaluation". Journal for Maritime Research (National Maritime Museum).
↑ Semple, George (1776). A Treatise on Building in Water. Dublin: Husband.