1760 in science
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The year 1760 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Geology
- John Michell suggests earthquakes are caused by one layer of rocks rubbing against another.[1]
[edit] Medicine
- Samuel-Auguste Tissot publishes L'Onanisme in Lausanne, a treatise on the supposed ill-effects of masturbation.[2][3]
[edit] Physics
- Johann Heinrich Lambert publishes Photometria, a pioneering work in photometry, including a formulation of the Beer–Lambert law on light absorption.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- April 13 - Thomas Beddoes, reforming English physician (d. 1808)
- June 5 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1852)
- October 23 - Hanaoka Seishū, Japanese surgeon (d. 1835)
- Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, French astronomer, (d. 1832)
[edit] Deaths
- September 11 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
[edit] Reference
- ^ "Conjectures concerning the Cause and Observations upon the Phaenomena of Earthquakes". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 51.
- ^ Singy, Patrick (2003). "Friction of the Genitals and Secularization of Morality". Journal of the History of Sexuality 12: 345–64. JSTOR 3704892.
- ^ Laqueur, Thomas W. (2003). Solitary Sex: a cultural history of masturbation. New York: Zone Books. ISBN 1890951323.
