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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)

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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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[1] 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.

[2] "The Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory". The State Hermitage Museum. Archived from the original on 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2011-08-09.

[3] Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.

[4] Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 315–316. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

[5] Reported October 19 in The Pennsylvania Gazette .

[6] "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

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