1753 in science

• Ruđer Bošković's De lunae atmosphaera demonstrates the lack of atmosphere on the Moon. ==Botany==

'' • May 1 – Publication of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum, the start of formal scientific classification of plants. • 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. ==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). ==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. ==Technology==

• February 17 – The concept of electrical telegraphy is first published in the form of a letter from 'C. M.' to ''The Scots' Magazine''. • 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. ==Awards==

• Copley Medal: Benjamin Franklin ==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, electrocuted (born 1711) • December – Thomas Melvill, Scottish natural philosopher (born 1726) ==References==