Editing 1760 in science (section)

==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."<ref>{{cite book|first=Charles|last=Roberts|title=Ordinary Differential Equations: Applications, Models, and Computing|publisher=CRC Press|year=2011|pages=139-140}}</ref>
* [[Samuel-Auguste Tissot]] publishes ''L'Onanisme'' in [[Lausanne]], a treatise on the supposed ill-effects of [[masturbation]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Patrick|last=Singy|title=Friction of the Genitals and Secularization of Morality|jstor=3704892|journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality|volume=12|year=2003|pages=345–64|doi=10.1353/sex.2004.0015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Laqueur |first=Thomas W. |author-link=Thomas W. Laqueur |title=Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation |title-link=Solitary Sex |publisher=Zone Books |year=2003 |isbn=1-890951-32-3 |location=New York}}</ref>