1753 in science

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

Astronomy[edit]

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

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.

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.

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

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]

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]

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)

^ Энциклопедия для детей (астрономия). Москва: Аванта+. 1998. ISBN 978-5-89501-016-7.
^ Date adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
^ Geoffroy, C. F. (1753). "Sur Bismuth". Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences: 190. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
^ Weeks, Mary Elvira (1932). "The discovery of the elements. II. Elements known to the alchemists". Journal of Chemical Education. 9 (1): 11. Bibcode:1932JChEd...9...11W. doi:10.1021/ed009p11.
^ 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.
^ Bartholemew, M. (January 2002). "James Lind and Scurvy: a revaluation". Journal for Maritime Research. 4. National Maritime Museum: 1–14. doi:10.1080/21533369.2002.9668317. S2CID 42109340.
^ 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.
^ "An Expeditious Method of Conveying Intelligence". Huurdeman, Anton A. (2003). The Worldwide History of Telecommunications. John Wiley & Sons. p. 48.
^ Semple, George (1776). A Treatise on Building in Water. Dublin: Husband.
^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.