1714 in science
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The year 1714 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany
- August 17 â Fragaria chiloensis, the Chilean strawberry, is brought to Europe by French military engineer Amédée-François Frézier.[1]
Mathematics
- March â 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 â 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.[2]
- Gottfried Leibniz discusses the harmonic triangle.[3]
Medicine
- April 14 â Anne, Queen of Great Britain, performs the last touching for the "King's evil".[4]
- 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.[5]
Technology
- Henry Mill obtains a British patent for a machine resembling a typewriter.
Events
- July â 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 â Anna Morandi, Bolognese anatomist (died 1774)[6]
- January 6 â Percivall Pott, English surgeon (died 1788)
- June 17 â César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (died 1784)
- September 6 â Robert Whytt, Scottish physician (died 1766)
- October 16 â Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (died 1795)
- October 25 â James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish philosopher and evolutionary thinker (died 1799)
- December 19 â John Winthrop, American astronomer (died 1779)
- December 31 â Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician (died 1783)
- Alexander Wilson, Scottish surgeon, type founder, astronomer, meteorologist and mathematician (died 1786)
Deaths
- October 5 â Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher and botanist (born 1630)
- November 1 â John Radcliffe, English physician and benefactor (born 1650)
- November 5 â Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born 1633)