1603 in science

none thumb | right 1603 science 1603 The year 1603 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy Johann Bayer publishes the star atlas Uranometria, the first to cover the entire celestial sphere,Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology 2nd and introducing a new system of star designation which becomes known as the Bayer designation. Dutch explorer Frederick de Houtman publishes his observations of the southern hemisphere constellations.As a supplement to his grammar and dictionary of the Malay and Malagasy languages, Fr. de Houtman Spraeck ende woord-boeck, in de Maleysche ende Madagaskarsche talen, met vele Arabische ende Turcsche woorden. Inhoudende twaelf tsamensprekeninghen inde Maleysche, ende drie in de Madagaskarsche spraken, met alderhande woorden ende namen, ghestela naer dordre vanden A.B.C. alles int Nederduytsch gestellt: noch zijn hier byghevoecht de declinatien van vele vaste Sterren, staende ontrent den Zuyd-pool Amsterdam Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch 1603 http://objects.library.uu.nl/reader/index.php?obj=1874-205055&lan=en#page//25/21/32/25213223606406628589176308896733666129.jpg/mode/1up 2012-01-02 Exploration Acadia, the French colony in North America, is founded. Mathematics Pietro Cataldi finds the sixth and seventh perfect numbers.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 41 Medicine Girolamo Fabrici studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which only allow blood to flow toward the heart. Institutions August 17 – Accademia dei Lincei, the oldest scientific academy in the world, is founded in Rome by Federico Cesi. Births September 15 – John Jonston, Polish naturalist and physician (died 1675) Blaise Francois Pagan, French military engineer (died 1665) Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (died 1659) Deaths February 23 – François Viète, French mathematician (born 1540) Robert Alaine, English astronomer (born 1558) References Category:17th century in science Category:1600s in science