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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]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Helmut|last1=Pechlaner|first2=Dagmar|last2=Schratter|publisher=Gerhard Heindl|title=Von Kaiser bis Känguru: Neues zur Geschichte des ältesten Zoos der Welt|location=Vienna|year=2005|isbn=3-7003-1497-3}}</ref>

==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]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

==Mathematics==
* [[Euler]] gives his formula for the number of faces, edges and vertices in a [[polyhedron]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Medicine==
* Foundation of what will become the [[Manchester Royal Infirmary]] as a [[cottage hospital]] in Garden Street, [[Manchester]], [[England]], by [[Charles White (surgeon)]].<ref>{{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]}}</ref>
* [[John Pringle (physician)|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.<ref>Reported October 19 in ''[[The Pennsylvania Gazette]]''.</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Copley Medal]]: [[John Pringle (physician)|John Pringle]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=21 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

==Births==
* May 9 – [[Antonio Scarpa]], [[Italian people|Italian]] [[anatomist]] (died [[1832 in science|1832]])
* May 11 – [[Johann Friedrich Blumenbach]], [[Germans|German]] [[physiologist]] and [[anthropologist]] (died [[1840 in science|1840]])
* July 6 – [[John Sheldon (anatomist)|John Sheldon]], [[English people|English]] anatomist (died [[1808 in science|1808]])
* July 7 – [[Joseph Marie Jacquard]], [[French people|French]] inventor (died [[1834 in science|1834]])
* July 23 – [[Marc-Auguste Pictet]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] physicist (died [[1825 in science|1825]])
* September 18 – [[Adrien-Marie Legendre]], French [[mathematician]] (died [[1833 in science|1833]])
* [[Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre]], French [[naturalist]] (died [[1804 in science|1804]])

==Deaths==
* January 4 – [[Gabriel Cramer]], [[Republic of Geneva|Genevan]] mathematician (born [[1704 in science|1704]])
* February 9 – [[Frederik Hasselquist]], Swedish traveller and naturalist (born [[1722 in science|1722]])
* April 10 – [[William Cheselden]], surgeon (born [[1688 in science|1688]])

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