1752 in science
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The year 1752 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Biology
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_13_0_0.html |publisher=The State Hermitage Museum |title=The Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory |accessdate=2011-08-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805090011/http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_13_0_0.html |archivedate=2011-08-05 }}
Mathematics
- Euler gives his formula for the number of faces, edges and vertices in a polyhedron.{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8|page=92}}
Medicine
- Foundation of what will become the Manchester Royal Infirmary as a cottage hospital in Garden Street, Manchester, England, by Charles White (surgeon).{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/315|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/315 315–316]}}
- 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
Awards
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)