1752 in science

none thumb | right | Benjamin Franklin Lightning Experiment, 1752 1752 science 1752 The year 1752 in science and technology involved some significant events. Biology Establishment of Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, the world's oldest zoo.Helmut Pechlaner Dagmar Schratter Gerhard Heindl Von Kaiser bis Känguru: Neues zur Geschichte des ältesten Zoos der Welt Vienna 2005 3-7003-1497-3 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.http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_13_0_0.html The State Hermitage Museum The Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory 2011-08-09 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110805090011/http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_13_0_0.html 2011-08-05 Mathematics Euler gives his formula for the number of faces, edges and vertices in a polyhedron.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 92 Medicine Foundation of what will become the Manchester Royal Infirmary as a cottage hospital in Garden Street, Manchester, England, by Charles White (surgeon).Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/315 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 315–316 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.Reported October 19 in The Pennsylvania Gazette. Awards Copley Medal: John PringleCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en 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 Category:18th century in science Category:1750s in science