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The year 1711 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Biology
- Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli shows that coralis an animal rather than a plant as previously thought.
Mathematics
- Giovanni Ceva publishes De Re Nummeraria (Concerning Money Matters), one of the first books on mathematical economics.
- Leibniz and Newton calculus controversy.
Technology
- John Shore invents the tuning fork
Births
- May 18 – )
- July 22 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (died 1753)
- September 22 – Thomas Wright, English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist (died 1786)
- October 31 – Laura Bassi, Italian scientist (died 1778)
- November 19 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist (died 1765)