He first introduced the concept in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, written in 1759.

The first appearance of the invisible hand in Smith occurs in The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) in Part IV, Chapter 1, where he describes a selfish landlord as being led by an invisible hand to distribute his harvest to those who work for him: " The proud and unfeeling landlord views his extensive fields, and without a thought for the wants of his brethren, in imagination consumes himself the whole harvest ... the capacity of his stomach bears no proportion to the immensity of his desires ... the rest he will be obliged to distribute among those, who prepare, in the nicest manner, that little which he himself makes use of, among those who fit up the palace in which this little is to be consumed, among those who provide and keep in order all the different baubles and trinkets which are employed in the economy of greatness ; all of whom thus derive from his luxury and caprice, that share of the necessaries of life, which they would in vain have expected from his humanity or his justice ... The rich ... are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society ..."

In The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) and in The Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ) Adam Smith speaks of an invisible hand, never of the invisible hand.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a 1759 book by Adam Smith.

— Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759

His principal work, Tentamen Theoriae Electricitatis et Magnetismi ( An Attempt at a Theory of Electricity and Magnetism ), published at St Petersburg in 1759, was the first systematic attempt to apply mathematical reasoning to these subjects.

* The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ), Adam Smith's other classic

( 1759 ) The Theory of Moral Sentiments, in Adam Smiths Moral and Political Philosophy, edited by H. Schneider, Harper, New York, 1948 and 1970.

Adam Smith is remembered by lay persons as the father of capitalism, but his Theory of Moral Sentiments of 1759 also attempted to strike out a new ground for moral action.

Adam Smith is remembered by lay persons as the father of capitalism, but his Theory of Moral Sentiments of 1759 attempted to strike out a new ground for moral action.

They were written in continuation of a dialogue on the age of Queen Elizabeth included in his Moral and Political Dialogues ( 1759 ) Two later dialogues On the Uses of Foreign Travel were printed in 1763.

( c ) Ligeantia localis, by operation of law, when a friendly alien enters the country, because so long as they are in the country they are within the Sovereign's protection, therefore they owe the Sovereign a local obedience or allegiance ( R v Cowle ( 1759 ) 2 Burr 834 ; Low v Routledge ( 1865 ) 1 Ch App 42 ; Re Johnson, Roberts v Attorney-General 1 Ch 821 ; Tingley v Muller 2 Ch 144 ; Rodriguez v Speyer AC 59 ; Johnstone v Pedlar 2 AC 262 ; R v Tucker ( 1694 ) Show Parl Cas 186 ; R v Keyn ( 1876 ) 2 Ex D 63 ; Re Stepney Election Petn, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 );

In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.

In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1698 – 1759 ) to measure a degree of latitude.

Early skirmishes were followed by victory for the Afghans against the smaller Maratha garrisons in Northwest India and by 1759 Ahmad and his army had reached Lahore and were poised to confront the Marathas.

* 1759 A Journey Through Europe published by John Jefferys, the earliest board game with a designer whose name is known.

The tower, which rises to, contains a bell dating from 1759 made by Thomas Bilbie of the Bilbie family.

Candide, ou l ' Optimisme (; French: ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.

At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.

Didier Diderot ( 1685 – 1759 ), a painting by an unknown artist.

Diderot helped Grimm between 1759 and 1779, by writing an account of the annual exhibitions of paintings in the Paris Salon.

John Byron, by Joshua Reynolds, 1759.

It first saw the light of day on New Year's Eve 1759 sung by Samuel Thomas Champnes, grandson of John Weldon, in one of the first pantomimes, " Harlequin's Invasion ", at the Garrick Theatre.

Notable accounts of encounters with the Holy Spirit in this fashion are found in St Symeon the New Theologian's account of the illumination of ' George ' ( considered a pseudonym of St Symeon himself ); in the ' conversation with Motovilov ' in the Life of St Seraphim of Sarov ( 1759 – 1833 ); and, more recently, in the reminiscences of Elder Porphyrios ( Wounded by Love pp. 27 – 31 ).

Lettre de cachet ordering Jean-François Marmontel's detention at the Bastille, signed by Louis XV of France | Louis XV in 1759

The fate of one of the columns is recorded by a Greek inscription on one of the surviving columns, which states that " on 27 April 1759 he pulled down the column ".

* Candide ( 1759 ) by Voltaire

The term Quaternary (" fourth ") was proposed by Giovanni Arduino in 1759 for alluvial deposits in the Po river valley in northern Italy.

The Burning of Troy ( 1759 / 62 ), oil painting by Johann Georg Trautmann

In 1759, following a donation, another chair in economy was established, the Borgströmian professorship in " practical economy ", by which was meant the practical application of the natural sciences for economic purposes ( it eventually developed into a chair for physiological botany ).

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, which settled James Freeman ( 1759 – 1835 ) in 1782, and revised the Prayer Book into a mild Unitarian liturgy in 1785.

* 1759: Candide by Voltaire

* 1759 – 1767: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

* 1759 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor ( b. 1700 )

* 1700 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor ( d. 1759 )

* October 10 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor ( d. 1759 )

Designed by the architects John Carr and Robert Adam, it was built from 1759 to 1771 for wealthy trader Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood.

Portrait ( c. 1810 ), watercolour, of Henry Hunt ( 1773 – 1835 ) by Adam Buck ( 1759 – 1833 )

The most important house which he was involved with was Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire where he succeeded Matthew Brettingham from 1759 to 1760 and suggested the colonnaded hall, but he was himself displaced by Robert Adam, who altered his designs.

* Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire ( 1759 – 63 ) replaced Matthew Brettingham only to be replaced for the interiors and south front by Robert Adam

* Lambert-Sigisbert Adam ( 1700 – 1759 )

Lambert-Sigisbert Adam ( 10 October 1700 – 12 May 1759 ), French sculptor, known as Adam l ’ aîné (" the elder ") to distinguish him from his two sculptor brothers, was born in Nancy, the eldest son of sculptor Jacob-Sigisbert Adam.