The year 1753 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy 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.Date adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. 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."An Expeditious Method of Conveying Intelligence". 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)
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