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

==Mathematics==
* 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.<ref>Vol. '''28''': p. 40.</ref>
* [[Gottfried Leibniz]] discusses the [[harmonic triangle]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8|page=53}}</ref>

==Medicine==
* April 14 – [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]], performs the last [[Touch piece#Healing of the King's or Queen's Evil|touching]] for the "[[King's evil]]".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Werrett|first=Simon|title=Healing the Nation's Wounds: Royal Ritual and Experimental Philosophy in Restoration England|journal=History of Science|volume=38|year=2000|pages=377–99|bibcode=2000HisSc..38..377W}}</ref>
* [[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]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=B. G.|last1=Firkin|first2=J. A.|last2=Whitworth|title=Dictionary of Medical Eponyms|edition=2nd|page=225|location=New York|publisher=Parthenon Publishing Group|year=1996|isbn=1-85070-477-5}}</ref>

==Technology==
* [[Henry Mill]] obtains a British [[patent]] for a machine resembling a [[typewriter]].

==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]].

==Births==
* January 21 – [[Anna Morandi Manzolini|Anna Morandi]], [[Bologna|Bolognese]] [[anatomist]] (died [[1774 in science|1774]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Rebecca|last=Messbarge|title=The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini|location=Chicago|publisher=The University of Chicago Press|year=2019|page=3|isbn=978-0-22652-083-4}}</ref>
* January 6 – [[Percivall Pott]], English [[surgeon]] (died [[1788 in science|1788]])
* June 17 – [[César-François Cassini de Thury]], French [[astronomer]] (died [[1784 in science|1784]])
* September 6 – [[Robert Whytt]], Scottish [[physician]] (died [[1766 in science|1766]])
* October 16 – [[Giovanni Arduino (geologist)|Giovanni Arduino]], Italian [[geologist]] (died [[1795 in science|1795]])
* October 25 – [[James Burnett, Lord Monboddo]], [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[philosopher]] and [[history of evolutionary thought|evolutionary thinker]] (died [[1799 in science|1799]])
* December 19 – [[John Winthrop (1714–1779)|John Winthrop]], American [[astronomer]] (died [[1779 in science|1779]])
* December 31 – [[Arima Yoriyuki]], Japanese [[mathematician]] (died [[1783 in science|1783]])
* [[Alexander Wilson (astronomer)|Alexander Wilson]], Scottish surgeon, type founder, astronomer, meteorologist and mathematician (died [[1786 in science|1786]])

==Deaths==
* October 5 – [[Kaibara Ekiken]], Japanese philosopher and [[botanist]] (born [[1630 in science|1630]])
* November 1 – [[John Radcliffe (English physician)|John Radcliffe]], English [[physician]] and benefactor (born [[1650 in science|1650]])
* November 5 – [[Bernardino Ramazzini]], Italian physician (born [[1633 in science|1633]])

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