1714 in science

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

Contents 1 Mathematics 2 Medicine 3 Technology 4 Births 5 Deaths

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.
• 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.

Medicine

• Dominique Anel uses the first fine-pointed syringe in surgery, later known as "Anel's syringe".

Technology

• The British government establishes the Board of Longitude to administer the longitude prize for a simple and practical method for the precise determination of a ship's longitude.
• Henry Mill obtains a British patent for a machine resembling a typewriter.

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)
• November 25 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (died 1783)
• December 19 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (died 1779)
• date unknown - Robert Whytt, Scottish physician (died 1766)

Deaths

• October 5 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher and botanist (born 1630)
• November 5 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born 1633)
• date unknown - John Radcliffe, British physician (born 1652)

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