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.

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

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]

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.

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.^[5]

^ "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.
^ Fellmann, Emil (2007). Leonhard Euler. Springer. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-3-7643-7539-3.
^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.