1752 in science
The year 1752 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Biology
- Establishment of Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, the world's oldest zoo.
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.
Mathematics
- Euler gives his formula for the number of faces, edges and vertices in a polyhedron.
Medicine
- Foundation of what will become the Manchester Royal Infirmary as a cottage hospital in Garden Street, Manchester, England, by Charles White (surgeon).
- 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.
Awards
Births
- May 9 – Antonio Scarpa, Italian anatomist
- May 11 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physiologist and anthropologist
- July 6 – John Sheldon, English anatomist
- July 7 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor
- July 23 – Marc-Auguste Pictet, Swiss physicist
- September 18 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician
- Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, French naturalist
Deaths
- January 4 – Gabriel Cramer, Genevan mathematician
- February 9 – Frederik Hasselquist, Swedish traveller and naturalist
- April 10 – William Cheselden, surgeon