Editing 1775 in science (section)

==Chemistry==
* May 25 – [[Joseph Priestley]]'s account of his isolation of [[oxygen]] in the form of a [[gas]] ("dephlogisticated air") is read to the [[Royal Society]] of [[London]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Priestley|first=Joseph|jstor=106209|title=An Account of Further Discoveries in Air|journal=[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]]|volume=65|year=1775|pages=384–94|doi=10.1098/rstl.1775.0039|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Torbern Bergman]]'s ''{{lang|la|De attractionibus electivis}}'' ("A Dissertation on Elective Attractions") is published, containing the largest tables of [[chemical affinity]] ever published.