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The year1760 inscience andtechnology involved some significant events.

Chemistry

Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt investigates inks based oncobalt salts and isolatescacodyl from cobalt mineral containingarsenic, pioneering work inorganometallic chemistry.

Geology

John Michell suggestsearthquakes are caused by one layer of rocks rubbing against another.^[1]

Medicine

April 30 – Swiss mathematicianDaniel Bernoulli presents a paper at theFrench Academy of Sciences inParis in which "a mathematical model was used for the first time to study the population dynamics of infectious disease."^[2]
Samuel-Auguste Tissot publishesL'Onanisme inLausanne, a treatise on the supposed ill-effects ofmasturbation.^[3]^[4]

Physics

Johann Heinrich Lambert publishesPhotometria, a pioneering work inphotometry, including a formulation of theBeer–Lambert law on light absorption and the introduction of thealbedo as a reflection coefficient.

Technology

Liègeois mechanicianJohn Joseph Merlin first experiments withroller skates in London.^[5]

Events

MathematicianLeonhard Euler begins writing hisLetters to a German Princess (Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie) toFriederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt and her younger sisterLouise.^[6]

Awards

Copley Medal:Benjamin Wilson^[7]

Births

April 13 –Thomas Beddoes, reformingEnglish physician (died1808)
June 5 –Johan Gadolin,Finnish chemist andmineralogist (died1852)
October 23 –Hanaoka Seishū,Japanese surgeon (died1835)
Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi, Italian botanist (died1830)

Deaths

September 11 –Louis Godin, French astronomer (born1704)

References

^"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.
^Roberts, Charles (2011).Ordinary Differential Equations: Applications, Models, and Computing. CRC Press. pp. 139–140.
^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.
^Laqueur, Thomas W. (2003).Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. New York: Zone Books.ISBN 1-890951-32-3.
^Pollak, Michael (2015-04-24)."The History of Roller Skates".The New York Times. Retrieved2023-04-11.
^Fellmann, Emil[in German] (2007).Leonhard Euler. Springer. pp. 73–74.ISBN 978-3-7643-7539-3.
^"Copley Medal | British scientific award".Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved21 July 2020.

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