1663 in science

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The year 1663 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

Scottish mathematician James Gregory publishes Optica Promota, describing theoretically the Gregorian telescope.

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]

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]

October 7 – Robert Hooke presents his "Method for making a history of the weather" to the Royal Society of London.^[3]

The earliest known surviving clock with an anchor escapement is made by William Clement in England.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Robert Boyle publishes Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy (first part).

August 31 – Guillaume Amontons, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (died 1705)

^ 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.
^ Katz, V. J. (2009). A History of Mathematics: An Introduction (3rd ed.). Boston, Mass.: Pearson Education. p. 488.
^ Espinasse, Margaret (1956). Robert Hooke. London: Heinemann. p. 50. OCLC 459411551.
^ Reid, Thomas (1832). Treatise on Clock and Watch-making, Theoretical and Practical. Philadelphia, Pa: Carey & Lea. p. 184.
^ Beckett, Edmund (1874). A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells (6th ed.). London: Lockwood. p. 71.
^ Usher, Abbott Payson (1988). A History of Mechanical Inventions. New York: Courier Dover. p. 313. ISBN 0-486-25593-X.
^ The clock is in the Irish Museum of Time. "Museum of Time..." Irish Independent. Dublin. 2024-03-28. Retrieved 2024-09-26.