1760 in science

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The year 1760 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Chemistry

• Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt investigates inks based on cobalt salts and isolates cacodyl from cobalt mineral containing arsenic, pioneering work in organometallic chemistry.

Geology

• John Michell suggests earthquakes are caused by one layer of rocks rubbing against another.[1]

Medicine

• April 30 – Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli presents a paper at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris in which "a mathematical model was used for the first time to study the population dynamics of infectious disease."[2]
• Samuel-Auguste Tissot publishes L'Onanisme in Lausanne, a treatise on the supposed ill-effects of masturbation.[3][4]

Physics

• Johann Heinrich Lambert publishes Photometria, a pioneering work in photometry, including a formulation of the Beer–Lambert law on light absorption and the introduction of the albedo as a reflection coefficient.

Technology

• Liègeois mechanician John Joseph Merlin first experiments with roller skates in London.[5]

Events

• Mathematician Leonhard Euler begins writing his Letters to a German Princess (Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie) to Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt and her younger sister Louise.[6]

Awards

• Copley Medal: Benjamin Wilson[7]

Births

• April 13 – Thomas Beddoes, reforming English physician (died 1808)
• June 5 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist and mineralogist (died 1852)
• October 23 – Hanaoka Seishū, Japanese surgeon (died 1835)
• Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi, Italian botanist (died 1830)

Deaths

• September 11 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (born 1704)

References

1. "Conjectures concerning the Cause and Observations upon the Phaenomena of Earthquakes". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 51: 566–634. doi:10.1098/rstl.1759.0057.
2. Roberts, Charles (2011). Ordinary Differential Equations: Applications, Models, and Computing. CRC Press. pp. 139–140.
3. Singy, Patrick (2003). "Friction of the Genitals and Secularization of Morality". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 12: 345–64. doi:10.1353/sex.2004.0015. JSTOR 3704892.
4. Laqueur, Thomas W. (2003). Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. New York: Zone Books. ISBN 1-890951-32-3.
5. Pollak, Michael (2015-04-24). "The History of Roller Skates". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
6. Fellmann, Emil [in German] (2007). Leonhard Euler. Springer. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-3-7643-7539-3.
7. "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.