1663 in science
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The year 1663 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
[edit | edit source]- Scottish mathematician James Gregory publishes Optica Promota, describing theoretically the Gregorian telescope.
Exploration
[edit | edit source]- March 4 – The Prince Edward Islands in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean are discovered by Barent Barentszoon Lam of the Dutch ship Maerseveen and named Dina (Prince Edward) and Maerseveen (Marion).[1]
Mathematics
[edit | edit source]- The first book about games of chance, Girolamo Cardano's Liber de ludo aleae ("On Casting the Die"), written in the 1560s, is published.[2]
Meteorology
[edit | edit source]- October 7 – Robert Hooke presents his "Method for making a history of the weather" to the Royal Society of London.[3]
Technology
[edit | edit source]- The earliest known surviving clock with an anchor escapement is made by William Clement in England.[4][5][6][7]
Publications
[edit | edit source]- Robert Boyle publishes Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy (first part).
Births
[edit | edit source]- August 31 – Guillaume Amontons, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (died 1705)
Deaths
[edit | edit source]- December 28 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian physicist (born 1618)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Leupe, Pieter Arend Leupe (1868). "De eilanden Dina en Maerseveen in den Zuider Atlantischen Oceaan" in: Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen, de zeevaartkunde, de hydrographie, de koloniën en de daarmede in verband staande wetenschappen, Deel 28, Afd. 2, [no.] 9 (Amsterdam) pp. 242–253.
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