The year 1760 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Apr 25 2015Chemistry
- 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.34
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
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
"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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105602 ↩
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. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩
Laqueur, Thomas W. (2003). Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. New York: Zone Books. ISBN 1-890951-32-3. 1-890951-32-3 ↩
Pollak, Michael (2015-04-24). "The History of Roller Skates". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-04-11. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/nyregion/the-history-of-roller-skates.html ↩
Fellmann, Emil [in German] (2007). Leonhard Euler. Springer. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-3-7643-7539-3. 978-3-7643-7539-3 ↩
"Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020. https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal ↩