1663 in science

Astronomy

Exploration

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.

Meteorology

Publications

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

Births

Deaths

References

  1. 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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