1714 in science

The year 1714 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Botany

• August 17 – Fragaria chiloensis, the Chilean strawberry, is brought to Europe by French military engineer Amédée-François Frézier.

Mathematics

• March – Roger Cotes publishes Logometrica in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He provides the first proof of what becomes known as Euler's formula and constructs the logarithmic spiral.
• May – Brook Taylor publishes a paper, written in 1708, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society which describes his solution to the center of oscillation problem.
• Gottfried Leibniz discusses the harmonic triangle.

Medicine

• April 14 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, performs the last touching for the "King's evil".
• Dominique Anel uses the first fine-pointed syringe in surgery, later known as "Anel's syringe".
• Herman Boerhaave introduces a modern system of clinical teaching at the University of Leiden.
• The anatomical engravings of Bartolomeo Eustachi (died 1574) are published for the first time as Tabulae anatomicae by Giovanni Maria Lancisi.

Technology

• Henry Mill obtains a British patent for a machine resembling a typewriter.

Events

• July – The Parliament of Great Britain offers the Longitude prize to anyone who can solve the problem of accurately determining a ship's longitude.

Births

• January 21 – Anna Morandi, Bolognese anatomist (died 1774)
• January 6 – Percivall Pott, English surgeon (died 1788)
• June 17 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (died 1784)
• September 6 – Robert Whytt, Scottish physician (died 1766)
• October 16 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (died 1795)
• October 25 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish philosopher and evolutionary thinker (died 1799)
• December 19 – John Winthrop, American astronomer (died 1779)
• December 31 – Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician (died 1783)
• Alexander Wilson, Scottish surgeon, type founder, astronomer, meteorologist and mathematician (died 1786)

Deaths

• October 5 – Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher and botanist (born 1630)
• November 1 – John Radcliffe, English physician and benefactor (born 1650)
• November 5 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born 1633)

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