1752 in science

• 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. ==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) ==References==