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<h2 id="chemistry">Chemistry</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Louis_Claude_Cadet_de_Gassicourt/4CGC2GsM">Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt</a> investigates inks based on <a href="/facts/Cobalt/gqhScEw4">cobalt</a> salts and isolates <a href="/facts/Cacodyl/d4qLUzup">cacodyl</a> from cobalt mineral containing <a href="/facts/Arsenic/k1c4f44D">arsenic</a>, pioneering work in <a href="/facts/Organometallic_chemistry/bhqFz2P0">organometallic chemistry</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="geology">Geology</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/John_Michell/hoVarM2s">John Michell</a> suggests <a href="/facts/Earthquake/NGjIzagw">earthquakes</a> are caused by one layer of rocks rubbing against another.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="medicine">Medicine</h2> <ul><li>April 30 – Swiss mathematician <a href="/facts/Daniel_Bernoulli/NRs5Ne5r">Daniel Bernoulli</a> presents a paper at the <a href="/facts/French_Academy_of_Sciences/zF42DYQv">French Academy of Sciences</a> in <a href="/facts/Paris/DrNHpwnA">Paris</a> in which "a mathematical model was used for the first time to study the population dynamics of infectious disease."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Samuel-Auguste_Tissot/0UpP09KW">Samuel-Auguste Tissot</a> publishes <i>L'Onanisme</i> in <a href="/facts/Lausanne/HwlVEYGN">Lausanne</a>, a treatise on the supposed ill-effects of <a href="/facts/Masturbation/7uGXPrVc">masturbation</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="physics">Physics</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Johann_Heinrich_Lambert/CG3IHVB9">Johann Heinrich Lambert</a> publishes <i><a href="/facts/Photometria/JxNlaMXr">Photometria</a></i>, a pioneering work in <a href="/facts/Photometry_(optics)/eo6J7qj3">photometry</a>, including a formulation of the <a href="/facts/Beer%25E2%2580%2593Lambert_law/nl64rI1C">Beer–Lambert law</a> on light absorption and the introduction of the <a href="/facts/Albedo/TJDRdKEB">albedo</a> as a reflection coefficient.</li></ul> <h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <ul><li>Liègeois mechanician <a href="/facts/John_Joseph_Merlin/uJrm2NXg">John Joseph Merlin</a> first experiments with <a href="/facts/Roller_skates/S743dw6X">roller skates</a> in London.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li>Mathematician <a href="/facts/Leonhard_Euler/z2fsbjgj">Leonhard Euler</a> begins writing his <i><a href="/facts/Letters_to_a_German_Princess/tcGTr9Nq">Letters to a German Princess</a></i> (<i>Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie</i>) to <a href="/facts/Friederike_Charlotte_of_Brandenburg-Schwedt/39nSsQGH">Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt</a> and her younger sister <a href="/facts/Louise_of_Brandenburg-Schwedt/hS14aYLh">Louise</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Copley_Medal/bBwd6QzN">Copley Medal</a>: <a href="/facts/Benjamin_Wilson_(painter)/V9nfQsM6">Benjamin Wilson</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>April 13 – <a href="/facts/Thomas_Beddoes/HgWqux3T">Thomas Beddoes</a>, reforming <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> <a href="/facts/Physician/qJ3woFvG">physician</a> (died <a href="/facts/1808_in_science/MBu753ww">1808</a>)</li> <li>June 5 – <a href="/facts/Johan_Gadolin/dMFU1Lna">Johan Gadolin</a>, <a href="/facts/Finns/6rVmdljT">Finnish</a> <a href="/facts/Chemist/N09K7Bdm">chemist</a> and <a href="/facts/Mineralogist/MeIK9lx9">mineralogist</a> (died <a href="/facts/1852_in_science/BSfIEwWG">1852</a>)</li> <li>October 23 – <a href="/facts/Hanaoka_Seish%25C5%25AB/qepcUbyH">Hanaoka Seishū</a>, <a href="/facts/Japan/U5mz0SRT">Japanese</a> <a href="/facts/Surgeon/Hm0R9t6n">surgeon</a> (died <a href="/facts/1835_in_science/27n5ehaF">1835</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Clelia_Durazzo_Grimaldi/ERptMqlW">Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi</a>, Italian botanist (died <a href="/facts/1830_in_science/dfdvqMg2">1830</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>September 11 – <a href="/facts/Louis_Godin/SmGym0QD">Louis Godin</a>, French astronomer (born <a href="/facts/1704_in_science/1uIutsBc">1704</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"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. <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105602" target="_blank">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105602</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Roberts, Charles (2011). Ordinary Differential Equations: Applications, Models, and Computing. CRC Press. pp. 139–140. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>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. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Laqueur, Thomas W. (2003). Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. New York: Zone Books. ISBN 1-890951-32-3. <a href="1-890951-32-3" target="_blank">1-890951-32-3</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Pollak, Michael (2015-04-24). "The History of Roller Skates". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-04-11. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/nyregion/the-history-of-roller-skates.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/nyregion/the-history-of-roller-skates.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Fellmann, Emil [in German] (2007). Leonhard Euler. Springer. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-3-7643-7539-3. <a href="978-3-7643-7539-3" target="_blank">978-3-7643-7539-3</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>