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.Reported October 19 in The Pennsylvania Gazette.
Awards Copley Medal: John Pringle
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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