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The year1714 inscience andtechnology involved some significant events.

Mathematics

March –Roger Cotes publishesLogometrica in thePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He provides the first proof of what becomes known asEuler's formula and constructs thelogarithmic spiral.
May –Brook Taylor publishes a paper, written in 1708, in thePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society which describes his solution to thecenter of oscillation problem.^[1]
Gottfried Leibniz discusses theharmonic triangle.^[2]

Medicine

April 14 –Anne, Queen of Great Britain, performs the lasttouching for the "King's evil".^[3]
Dominique Anel uses the first fine-pointedsyringe insurgery, later known as "Anel's syringe".
Herman Boerhaave introduces a modern system of clinical teaching at theUniversity of Leiden.
The anatomical engravings ofBartolomeo Eustachi (died 1574) are published for the first time asTabulae anatomicae byGiovanni Maria Lancisi.^[4]

Technology

Henry Mill obtains a Britishpatent for a machine resembling atypewriter.

Events

July – TheParliament of Great Britain offers theLongitude prize to anyone who can solve the problem of accurately determining a ship'slongitude.

Births

January 21 –Anna Morandi,Bolognese anatomist (died1774)^[5]
January 6 –Percivall Pott, Englishsurgeon (died1788)
June 17 –César-François Cassini de Thury, Frenchastronomer (died1784)
September 6 –Robert Whytt, Scottishphysician (died1766)
October 16 –Giovanni Arduino, Italiangeologist (died1795)
October 25 –James Burnett, Lord Monboddo,Scottish philosopher andevolutionary thinker (died1799)
December 19 –John Winthrop, Americanastronomer (died1779)
December 31 –Arima Yoriyuki, Japanesemathematician (died1783)
Alexander Wilson, Scottish surgeon, type founder, astronomer, meteorologist and mathematician (died1786)

Deaths

October 5 –Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher andbotanist (born1630)
November 1 –John Radcliffe, Englishphysician and benefactor (born1650)
November 5 –Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born1633)

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 1-85070-477-5.
^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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