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The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.
The opening of the Sankey Canal in 1757, followed by the Bridgewater Canal in 1761, which halved the price of coal in Liverpool and Manchester England, respectively, triggered a period of " canal mania " in Britain so that between 1760 and 1820 over one hundred canals were built.
His operatic works include two of the most successful musical comedies of the eighteenth century, Il filosofo di campagna ( The Country Philosopher ), set by Galuppi ( 1752 ) and La buona figliuola ( The Good Girl ), set by Niccolò Piccinni ( 1760 ).
* La buona figliuola ( The Good Girl ) by Niccolò Piccinni ( 1760 )
He notes that Vaccinium macrocarpon ( American cranberry ) was cultivated by James Gordon in 1760.
* The Ossian cycle of ancient Celtic poetry supposedly rediscovered and published in 1760 by Scottish poet James Macpherson was actually written in the eighteenth century, possibly based on some fragments of earlier verses.
In Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave Frederick II, ruled 1760 – 1785 as an enlightened despot, and raised money by renting soldiers ( called " Hessians ") to Great Britain to help fight the American Revolutionary War.
These were followed a few months later by the Battle of Wandiwash in India on 22 January 1760.
Image: Hokusai tanuki tea kettle. jpg | A tanuki ( raccoon dog ) as a tea kettle, by Katsushika Hokusai ( 1760 — 1849 ), Japanese
In fact, during the reigns of the final three joint rulers ( 1760 – 1837 ), there was only one short visit, by George IV in 1821.
Saint Herman of Alaska ( born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska ) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.
Hasidic Judaism was founded by Yisroel ben Eliezer ( 1700 – 1760 ), also known as the Ba ' al Shem Tov ( or Besht ).
The colony's slaves, who outnumbered their white masters by a ratio of 20: 1 in 1800, mounted over a dozen major slave conspiracies ( the majority of which were organized by Coromantins ), and uprisings during the 18th century, including Tacky's revolt in 1760.
* 1760 – Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
These four productions, with other occasional sermons, were in 1760 republished collectively, in three volumes, at Amsterdam, and preceded by an Essai historique sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de M. Abbadie.
Boulton, Darwin and Whitehurst were in turn introduced by Michell to Benjamin Franklin when he travelled to Birmingham in July 1758 " to improve and increase Acquaintance among Persons of Influence ", and Franklin returned in 1760 to conduct experiments with Boulton on electricity and sound.
In 1760 during the Seven Years ' War, Liegnitz was the site of the Battle of Liegnitz when Frederick's army defeated an Austrian army led by Laudon.
It was proposed that the force on magnetic poles, by Johann Tobias Mayer and others in 1760, and electrically charged objects, by Henry Cavendish in 1762, obeyed an inverse-square law.
A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d ' Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut ( 1730 – 1814 ), was published in Paris in 1775 ; and an English translation of the whole work by John Colson ( 1680 – 1760 ), the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, " inspected " by John Hellins, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Maseres.

1760 and Oeben
Oeben's distinguished marquetry appears at its most ambitious on the famous, minutely-documented roll-top Bureau du Roi, made for Louis XV, which was begun in 1760 and remained unfinished at his death ; it was finished and delivered in 1769, signed by Jean Henri Riesener, but it was Oeben who devised its intricate mechanisms.
He completed the Bureau du Roi, which had been started in 1760, under his predecessor Oeben ; his name alone appears in the marquetry.

1760 and reflecting
The house, dating to 1760, was old-fashioned in its appearance, but that appearance concealed a delicate and beautiful interior, reflecting Chinese influence.

1760 and new
It was moved to the new genus Aquila by French ornithologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760.
The year 1760 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
The year 1760 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
It was reclassified to ( and was designated the type species of ) the new genus Ciconia by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760.
On the death of Charles Alston in 1760, Cullen at the request of the students undertook to finish his course of lectures on materia medica ; he delivered an entirely new course, notes of which were published in an unauthorized edition in 1771, but which he re-wrote and issued as A Treatise on Materia Medica in 1789.
Following the death of George II and the accession of his grandson George III in 1760 Shelburne was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the new King.
Solander traveled to England in June 1760 to promote the new Linnean system of classification.
The following season found Foote in Dublin where Wilkinson was drawing crowds with his imitations and on 28 January 1760, Foote opened a new play, The Minor.
On 22 February 1760, Mylne was finally declared the winner of the competition, and he was appointed surveyor to the new Blackfriars Bridge, with overall responsibility for design, construction and future maintenance of the structure, on a salary of £ 400 a year.
As a result, between 1760 and 1830, many tens of thousands of Lowland Scots emigrated, taking advantage of the many new opportunities offered in Canada and the United States after 1776 to own and farm their own land.
A new stone fort was planned near the old fort and was described as " nearly complete " in 1754, although construction continued until 1760.
Under the Marathas ( 1760 – 72 ), a new gate about to the south of the Ganesh gate was opened near the mansion of Ramji Mahadeo Biwalkar, the Peshwa s Governor.
Popayán also served as a colonial mine, producing various denominations of the Escudo gold coins and silver Reales from 1760 through 1819 ; it continued producing coinage for the new Republic of Colombia after 1826.
In 1760 the Brandlings built a new residence, Middleton Lodge, designed by James Paine.
The first new Congregational church worship building in Massachusetts in the Great Awakening period of 1730 – 1760, was at the newly incorporated town of Uxbridge.
* ‘ A View of Mr. Kennicott's Method of Correcting the Hebrew Text ,’ 1760, criticising the plan of Benjamin Kennicott and some of his friends to collate the text of the Hebrew Bible from manuscripts, to prepare for a new translation to be made into English language.
The " new " Auchinleck House was built circa 1760 by Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, 8th Laird of Auchinleck.
However, the ships were replaced already in 1760, and the new flotilla served until the end of the war in 1763.
The “ consecration of the writer ” emerged from these two complementary though divergent tendencies in the period from 1760 to 1789, during which the writer ’ s mission was widely believed to be that of guiding humanity to the promised land of the new order.
During the Seven Years War, the Louisbourg Garrison's residents became prisoners to the British when the fortress fell, and after the conquest of 1760, many settled permanently in the new territory, while others were repatriated to France.
Between 1760 and 1780, was the beginning of the renovation / remodelling of the roads Rua de São Roque, Rua de Calhariz and Rua do Século, that included the widening of the routes and construction of new buildings.
In 1760 the bridge was widened on the upstream side, and the Alms House ( formerly the chapel to Our Lady ) was demolished to make way for the new structure.
Substantial alterations in the 1760 / 70's included the replacement and repitching of the great hall roof, the new gothic south window of the great hall complete with the ogee parapet above it and the provision of a ceiling within the hall.
When Oídor Aróstequi arrived in February 1760, the indigenous population had dwindled to 85, and there were 644 new settlers divided among 109 families.

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