1753 in science

none 1753 science 1753 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.Энциклопедия для детей (астрономия) Аванта+ 1998 Москва 978-5-89501-016-7 Botany 200px|right|Species Plantarum May 1 – Publication of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum, the start of formal scientific classification of plants.Date adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. June – Establishment in Florence of the Accademia dei Georgofili, the world's oldest society devoted to agronomy and scientific agriculture. Chemistry Claude François Geoffroy demonstrates that bismuth is distinct from lead and tin.http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3551g/f197.image.r=royal.langEN Sur Bismuth 190 1753 Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences Geoffroy C. F. 2013-11-2610.1021/ed009p11 The discovery of the elements. II. Elements known to the alchemists 1932 Weeks Mary Elvira Mary Elvira Weeks Journal of Chemical Education 9 1 11 1932JChEd...9...11WC. R. Hammond 4-1 The Elements CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 81st Boca Raton, FL CRC Press 0-8493-0485-7 2004 Computer science January 1 – Retrospectively, the minimum date value for a datetime field in an SQL Server (up to version 2005) due to this being the first full year since Britain's adoption of the Gregorian calendar. Medicine James Lind publishes the first edition of A Treatise on the Scurvy (although it is little noticed at this time).Bartholemew M. James Lind and Scurvy: a revaluation Journal for Maritime Research National Maritime Museum January 2002 4 1–14 10.1080/21533369.2002.9668317 42109340 Physics November 25 – The Russian Academy of Sciences announces a competition among chemists and physicists to provide "the best explanation of the true causes of electricity including their theory"; the prize will be won in 1755 by Johann Euler.Hallerstein and Gruber's Scientific Heritage Stanislav Joze Juznic The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica 2012 358 Technology February 17 – The concept of electrical telegraphy is first published in the form of a letter from 'C. M.' to The Scots' Magazine."An Expeditious Method of Conveying Intelligence". Anton A. Huurdeman The Worldwide History of Telecommunications John Wiley & Sons 2003 48 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.A Treatise on Building in Water George Semple Dublin Husband 1776 Awards Copley Medal: Benjamin FranklinCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en 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, electrocuted (born 1711) December – Thomas Melvill, Scottish natural philosopher (born 1726) References Category:18th century in science Category:1750s in science