1752 in science
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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>Template:Cite book</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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Mathematics
- Euler gives his formula for the number of faces, edges and vertices in a polyhedron.<ref>Template:Cite book</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>Template:Cite book</ref>
- 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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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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)