1714 in science

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

## Mathematics

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* 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.[1]
* Gottfried Leibniz discusses the harmonic triangle.[2]

## Medicine

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* April 14 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, performs the last touching for the "King's evil".[3]
* 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.[4]

## Technology

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

## Events

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* 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

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* January 21 – Anna Morandi, Bolognese anatomist (died 1774)[5]
* 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

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* 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)

## References

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1. ^ Vol. 28: p. 40.
2. ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 53\. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
3. ^ Werrett, Simon (2000). "Healing the Nation's Wounds: Royal Ritual and Experimental Philosophy in Restoration England". History of Science. 38: 377–99. Bibcode:2000HisSc..38..377W.
4. ^ Firkin, B. G.; Whitworth, J. A. (1996). Dictionary of Medical Eponyms (2nd ed.). New York: Parthenon Publishing Group. p. 225\. ISBN 1-85070-477-5.
5. ^ Messbarge, Rebecca (2019). The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. p. 3\. ISBN 978-0-22652-083-4.

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