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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'' (''Concerning Money Matters''), 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 (trumpeter)|John Shore]] invents the [[tuning fork]]

==Births==
* May 18 – [[Ruđer Bošković]], [[Republic of Ragusa|Ragusa]]n [[polymath]] (died [[1787 in science|1787]])
* July 22 – [[Georg Wilhelm Richmann]], Russian [[physicist]] (died [[1753 in science|1753]])
* September 22 – [[Thomas Wright (astronomer)|Thomas Wright]], English [[astronomer]], [[mathematician]], instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist (died [[1786 in science|1786]])
* October 31 – [[Laura Bassi]], Italian scientist (died [[1778 in science|1778]])
* November 19 – [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], Russian scientist (died [[1765 in science|1765]])

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