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The year
1752 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
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]
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]
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.
[5]
Awards
Copley Medal
:
John Pringle
[6]
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
^
Pechlaner, Helmut; Schratter, Dagmar (2005).
Von Kaiser bis Känguru: Neues zur Geschichte des ältesten Zoos der Welt
. Vienna: Gerhard Heindl.
ISBN
3-7003-1497-3
.
^
"The Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory"
. The State
Hermitage Museum
. Archived from
the original
on 2011-08-05
. Retrieved
2011-08-09
.
^
Crilly, Tony (2007).
50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know
. London: Quercus. p. 92.
ISBN
978-1-84724-008-8
.
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
315–316
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
Reported October 19 in
The Pennsylvania Gazette
.
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
21 July
2020
.
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