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1603 in science

Last updated December 19, 2025

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,^[1] 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.^[2]

Exploration

Acadia, the French colony in North America, is founded.

Mathematics

Pietro Cataldi finds the sixth and seventh perfect numbers.^[3]

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

↑ Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2nd ed.).
↑ As a supplement to his grammar and dictionary of the Malay and Malagasy languages, de Houtman, Fr. (1603). 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. Retrieved 2012-01-02.
↑ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.

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[1] Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2nd ed.).

[2] As a supplement to his grammar and dictionary of the Malay and Malagasy languages, de Houtman, Fr. (1603). 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. Retrieved 2012-01-02.

[3] Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.

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