1683 in science

none 1683 science 1683 The year 1683 in science and technology involved some significant events. Geography Vincenzo Coronelli completes terrestrial and celestial globes for Louis XIV of France. Biology September 17 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society of London describing "animalcules" – the first known description of protozoa.Anderson Douglas Wrote Letter 39 of 1683-09-17 (AB 76) to Francis Aston http://lensonleeuwenhoek.net/content/wrote-letter-39-1683-09-17-ab-76-francis-aston Lens on Leeuwenhoek 2016-09-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20160820153516/http://lensonleeuwenhoek.net/content/wrote-letter-39-1683-09-17-ab-76-francis-aston 2016-08-20 Mathematics May – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus publishes the Tschirnhaus transformation.Acta Eruditorum pp. 204-7. Based on his discovery of the resultant, Seki Takakazu starts to develop elimination theory in the Kai-fukudai-no-hō (解伏題之法,); and to express the resultant, he develops the notion of the determinant.Eves Howard 1990 https://books.google.com/books?id=PXvwAAAAMAAJ&q=seki&pg=PA405 An Introduction to the History of Mathematics Philadelphia Saunders College 6th 0-03-029558-0 405 Jacob Bernoulli discovers the mathematical constant e.Boyer, Carl Merzbach, Uta Uta Merzbach A History of Mathematics https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye registration 419 Wiley 1991 9780471543978 2nd Medicine Dutch physician Willem ten Rhijne publishes Dissertatio de Arthritide: Mantissa Schematica: De Acupunctura in London, introducing the West to acupuncture and moxibustion. Technology Vauban's manual on fortification, Le Directeur-Général des fortifications, begins publication at The Hague. Institutions May 24 – The Ashmolean Museum opens in Broad Street, Oxford (England) as the world's first purpose-built university museum,Ashmolean Museum The Invention of Museum Anthropology Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/primary-documents/primary-documents-ashmolean-museum.html 2012 2019-05-25 including accommodation for the teaching of natural philosophy and a chemistry laboratory. Naturalist Dr. Robert Plot is the first keeper and first professor of chemistry. October 15 – First meeting of the Dublin Philosophical Society, established by William Molyneux.Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650–1940 Greta Jones Elizabeth Malcolm 1999 Cork University Press 91 https://books.google.com/books?id=LPZhfPHLiNQC&dq=%22Dublin+Philosophical+Society%22&pg=PA91 978-1-85918-230-7Memoir of the Dublin Philosophical Society of 1683 William Wilde W. R. Wilde Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Royal Irish Academy Dublin 3 1844–1847 160–76 20489545T. D. Spearman 1992 400 Years of Mathematics http://www.maths.tcd.ie/about/400Hist/6.php Trinity College Dublin 2014-01-09 Births February 28 – Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, French physicist (died 1757) December 23 – François Nicole, French mathematician (died 1758) Approximate date Giovanni Poleni, Venetian mathematician and physicist (died 1761) Edmund Weaver, English astronomer (died 1748) Deaths May 2 – Stjepan Gradić, Ragusan polymath (born 1613) November 10 John Collins, English mathematician (born 1625) Robert Morison, Scottish botanist (born 1620) References Category:17th century in science Category:1680s in science