1714 in science

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 is now 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.
 * Gottfried Leibniz discusses the harmonic triangle.

Medicine

 * April 14 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, performs the last touching for the "King's evil".
 * 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.

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, Bolognese anatomist (died 1774)
 * January 6 – Percivall Pott, English surgeon (died 1788)
 * June 17 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (died 1784)
 * September 6 – Robert Whytt, Scottish physician (died 1766)
 * 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)
 * Alexander Wilson, Scottish surgeon, type founder, astronomer, meteorologist and mathematician (died 1786)

Deaths

 * October 5 – Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher and botanist (born 1630)
 * November 1 – John Radcliffe, English physician and benefactor (born 1650)
 * November 5 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born 1633)