- 1711 in science
The year 1711 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events.Biology
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Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli shows thatcoral is an animal rather than a plant as previously thought.Mathematics
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Giovanni Ceva publishes "De Re Nummeraria" ("Concerning Money Matters"), one of the first books onmathematical economics .
*John Keill , writing in the journal of theRoyal Society and withIsaac Newton 's presumed blessing, accusedGottfried Leibniz of having plagiarized Newton'scalculus , formally starting theLeibniz and Newton calculus controversy .Technology
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John Shore invents thetuning fork .Births
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May 18 -Rudjer Boscovich ,atom ictheorist (died 1787)
*July 22 -Georg Wilhelm Richmann , Russianphysicist (died 1753)
*October 31 -Laura Bassi , Italianscientist (died 1778)
*November 19 -Mikhail Lomonosov , Russianscientist (died 1765)
* "date unknown" - Thomas Wright, Englishastronomer (died 1786)
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