1663 in science

none 1663 science 1663 Some significant events in science and technology occurred in the year 1663. Astronomy Scottish mathematician James Gregory publishes Optica Promota, describing theoretically the Gregorian telescope. Exploration 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).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. Mathematics The first book about games of chance, Girolamo Cardano's Liber de ludo aleae ("On Casting the Die"), written in the 1560s, is published.V. J. Katz Victor J. Katz A History of Mathematics: An Introduction 3rd Boston, Mass. Pearson Education 2009 488 Meteorology October 7 – Robert Hooke presents his "Method for making a history of the weather" to the Royal Society of London.Espinasse Margaret Robert Hooke 1956 Heinemann London 50 459411551 Technology The earliest known surviving clock with an anchor escapement is made by William Clement in England.Reid Thomas Treatise on Clock and Watch-making, Theoretical and Practical Carey & Lea 1832 Philadelphia, Pa https://archive.org/details/treatiseonclock01reidgoog 184Beckett Edmund Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe 1874 A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells 6th Lockwood London https://books.google.com/books?id=OvQ3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA75 71Usher Abbott Payson A History of Mechanical Inventions 1988 Courier Dover New York 313 0-486-25593-X https://books.google.com/books?id=xuDDqqa8FlwC&pg=PA312The clock is in the Irish Museum of Time. 2024-03-28 Museum of Time... https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/museum-of-time-faces-exercise-in-patience-putting-200-clocks-forward-this-weekend/a1629974158.html 2024-09-26 Irish Independent Dublin Publications Robert Boyle publishes Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy (first part). Births August 31 – Guillaume Amontons, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (died 1705) Deaths December 28 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian physicist (born 1618) References Category:17th century in science Category:1660s in science