1760 in science

• 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. ==Technology==

• Liègeois mechanician John Joseph Merlin first experiments with roller skates in London. ==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) ==References==