1711 in science
The year 1711 in science and technology involved some significant events.Biology
- Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli shows that coral is an animal rather than a plant as previously thought.
Mathematics
- Giovanni Ceva publishes De Re Nummeraria, one of the first books on mathematical economics.
- John Keill, writing in the journal of the Royal Society and with Isaac Newton's presumed blessing, accuses Gottfried Leibniz of having plagiarized Newton's calculus, formally starting the Leibniz and Newton calculus controversy.
Technology
- John Shore invents the tuning fork
Births
- May 18 – Ruđer Bošković, Ragusan polymath
- July 22 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist
- September 22 – Thomas Wright, English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist
- October 31 – Laura Bassi, Italian scientist
- November 19 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist
