1760 in science

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The year 1760 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Chemistry 2 Geology 3 Medicine 4 Physics 5 Awards 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Reference

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.^[1]

Medicine

• Samuel-Auguste Tissot publishes L'Onanisme in Lausanne, a treatise on the supposed ill-effects of masturbation.^[2][3]

Physics

• Johann Heinrich Lambert publishes Photometria, a pioneering work in photometry, including a formulation of the Beer–Lambert law on light absorption.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Benjamin Wilson

Births

• April 13 - Thomas Beddoes, reforming English physician (d. 1808)
• June 5 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1852)
• Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, French astronomer, (d. 1832)

Deaths

• September 11 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)

Reference