1760 in science
# 1760 in science

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.

## 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."
* Samuel-Auguste Tissot publishes L'Onanisme in Lausanne, a treatise on the supposed ill-effects of masturbation.

## 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.

## 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.

## Awards

* Copley Medal: Benjamin Wilson

## 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)
