1760 in science

none 1760 science 1760 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.Conjectures concerning the Cause and Observations upon the Phaenomena of Earthquakes Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 51 10.1098/rstl.1759.0057 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105602 566–634 free 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."Charles Roberts Ordinary Differential Equations: Applications, Models, and Computing CRC Press 2011 139-140 Samuel-Auguste Tissot publishes L'Onanisme in Lausanne, a treatise on the supposed ill-effects of masturbation.Patrick Singy Friction of the Genitals and Secularization of Morality 3704892 Journal of the History of Sexuality 12 2003 345–64 10.1353/sex.2004.0015Laqueur Thomas W. Thomas W. Laqueur Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation Solitary Sex Zone Books 2003 1-890951-32-3 New York 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.Pollak Michael 2015-04-24 The History of Roller Skates The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/nyregion/the-history-of-roller-skates.html 2023-04-11 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.:de:Emil Fellmann Emil Fellmann Leonhard Euler https://books.google.com/books?id=eREahbPlHNQC&pg=PA73 2007 Springer 978-3-7643-7539-3 73–74 Awards Copley Medal: Benjamin WilsonCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en 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) September 21 – John Lining, Scottish-American botanist and physician (born 1708) References Category:18th century in science Category:1760s in science