1714 in science
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The year 1714 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Mathematics
- March - Roger Cotes publishes Logometrica in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He provides the first proof of what is now known as Euler's theorem 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]
[edit] Medicine
- 14 April - Queen Anne 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 (d. 1574) are published for the first time as Tabulae anatomicae by Giovanni Maria Lancisi.[4]
[edit] Technology
- Henry Mill obtains a British patent for a machine resembling a typewriter.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
- January 6 - Percivall Pott, English surgeon (died 1788)
- June 17 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (died 1784)
- 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)
- date unknown - Robert Whytt, Scottish physician (died 1766)
- date unknown - Anna Morandi Manzolini, Italian anatomist (died 1774)
[edit] Deaths
- October 5 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher and botanist (born 1630).
- November 1 - John Radcliffe, English physician and benefactor (born 1652).
- November 5 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born 1633)
[edit] References
- ^ Vol. 28: p. 40.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Firkin, B. G.; Whitworth, J. A. (1996). Dictionary of Medical Eponyms (2nd ed.). New York: Parthenon Publishing Group. p. 225. ISBN 1850704775.
