1753 in science

The year 1753 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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Astronomy

• Ruđer Bošković's De lunae atmosphaera demonstrates the lack of atmosphere on the Moon.[1]

Botany

Species Plantarum

• May 1 – Publication of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum, the start of formal scientific classification of plants.[2]
• June – Establishment in Florence of the Accademia dei Georgofili, the world's oldest society devoted to agronomy and scientific agriculture.

Chemistry

• Claude François Geoffroy demonstrates that bismuth is distinct from lead and tin.[3][4][5]

Computer science

• January 1 – Retrospectively, the minimum date value for a datetime field in an SQL Server (up to version 2005) due to this being the first full year since Britain's adoption of the Gregorian calendar.

Medicine

• James Lind publishes the first edition of A Treatise on the Scurvy (although it is little noticed at this time).[6]

Physics

• November 25 – The Russian Academy of Sciences announces a competition among chemists and physicists to provide "the best explanation of the true causes of electricity including their theory"; the prize will be won in 1755 by Johann Euler.[7]

Technology

• February 17 – The concept of electrical telegraphy is first published in the form of a letter from 'C. M.' to The Scots' Magazine.[8]
• Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod, to ring a bell when struck by lightning, following his 1752 kite and key tests.
• George Semple uses hydraulic lime cement in rebuilding Essex Bridge in Dublin.[9]

Awards

• Copley Medal: Benjamin Franklin[10]

Births

• March 26 – Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Anglo-American physicist (died 1814)
• April 28 – Franz Karl Achard, chemist (died 1821)
• August 3 – Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, British statesman and scientist (died 1816)

Deaths

• August 6 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (born 1711)
• December – Thomas Melvill, Scottish natural philosopher (born 1726)

References

1. Энциклопедия для детей (астрономия). Москва: Аванта+. 1998. ISBN 978-5-89501-016-7.
2. Date adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
3. Geoffroy, C. F. (1753). "Sur Bismuth". Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences: 190. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
4. Weeks, Mary Elvira (1932). "The discovery of the elements. II. Elements known to the alchemists". Journal of Chemical Education. 9: 11. Bibcode:1932JChEd...9...11W. doi:10.1021/ed009p11.
5. Hammond, C. R. (2004). "The Elements". CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (81st ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 4-1. ISBN 0-8493-0485-7.
6. Bartholemew, M. (January 2002). "James Lind and Scurvy: a revaluation". Journal for Maritime Research. National Maritime Museum.
7. Juznic, Stanislav Joze (2012). "Hallerstein and Gruber's Scientific Heritage". The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica. p. 358.
8. "An Expeditious Method of Conveying Intelligence". Huurdeman, Anton A. (2003). The Worldwide History of Telecommunications. John Wiley & Sons. p. 48.
9. Semple, George (1776). A Treatise on Building in Water. Dublin: Husband.
10. "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.