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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]].

==Geology==
* [[John Michell]] suggests [[earthquake]]s are caused by one layer of rocks rubbing against another.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Conjectures concerning the Cause and Observations upon the Phaenomena of Earthquakes|journal=[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]]|volume=51|doi=10.1098/rstl.1759.0057 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105602|pages=566–634|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==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>

==Physics==
* [[Johann Heinrich Lambert]] publishes ''[[Photometria]]'', a pioneering work in [[Photometry (optics)|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.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Pollak|first=Michael|date=2015-04-24|title=The History of Roller Skates|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/nyregion/the-history-of-roller-skates.html|access-date=2023-04-11}}</ref> 

==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 of Brandenburg-Schwedt|Louise]].<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=:de:Emil Fellmann|first=Emil|last=Fellmann|title=Leonhard Euler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eREahbPlHNQC&pg=PA73|year=2007|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-7643-7539-3|pages=73–74}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Copley Medal]]: [[Benjamin Wilson (painter)|Benjamin Wilson]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=21 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

==Births==
* April 13 – [[Thomas Beddoes]], reforming [[English people|English]] [[physician]] (died [[1808 in science|1808]])
* June 5 – [[Johan Gadolin]], [[Finns|Finnish]] [[chemist]] and [[mineralogist]] (died [[1852 in science|1852]])
* October 23 – [[Hanaoka Seishū]], [[Japan]]ese [[surgeon]] (died [[1835 in science|1835]])
* [[Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi]], Italian botanist (died [[1830 in science|1830]])

==Deaths==
* September 11 – [[Louis Godin]], French astronomer (born [[1704 in science|1704]])

==References==
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