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1597 In Science
The year 1597 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy * Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman define 12 southern constellations (1595–1597), introduced later by Johann Bayer in the 1603 text ''Uranometria'': Apus, Chamaeleon, Dorado, Grus, Hydrus, Indus, Musca, Pavo, Phoenix, Triangulum Australe, Tucana, Volans. Botany * John Gerard's ''The Herball, or generall historie of plantes'' published in London. Chemistry * Andreas Libavius's chemistry textbook ''Alchemia'' published. Births * April 13 – Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Italian astronomer (died 1660) * Henry Gellibrand, English mathematician (died 1637) Deaths * February 6 – Franciscus Patricius (born Franjo Petriš), Venetian philosopher and scientist of Croatian descent (born 1529) * June 20 – Willem Barentsz, Dutch explorer (born c. 1550 __NOTOC__ Year 1550 ( MDL) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triangulum Australe
Triangulum Australe is a small constellation in the far Southern Celestial Hemisphere. Its name is Latin for "the southern triangle", which distinguishes it from Triangulum in the northern sky and is derived from the acute, almost equilateral pattern of its three brightest stars. It was first depicted on a celestial globe as Triangulus Antarcticus by Petrus Plancius in 1589, and later with more accuracy and its current name by Johann Bayer in his 1603 ''Uranometria''. The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted and gave the brighter stars their Bayer designations in 1756. Alpha Trianguli Australis, known as Atria, is a second-magnitude orange giant and the brightest star in the constellation, as well as the 42nd-brightest star in the night sky. Completing the triangle are the two white main sequence stars Beta and Gamma Trianguli Australis. Although the constellation lies in the Milky Way and contains many stars, deep-sky objects are not prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1637 In Science
The year 1637 in science and technology involved some significant events. Mathematics * René Descartes promotes intellectual rigour in '' Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences'' and introduces the Cartesian coordinate system in its appendix ''La Géométrie'' (published in Leiden). * Pierre de Fermat conjectures Fermat's Last Theorem. Publications * May – Chinese encyclopedist Song Yingxing publishes his ''Tiangong Kaiwu'' ("Exploitation of the Works of Nature"). Births * February 12 – Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, pioneer of comparative anatomy and entomology (died 1680) * François Mauriceau, French obstetrician (died 1709) Deaths * June 24 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (born 1580) * May 19 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch philosopher and scientist (born 1588) * Henry Gellibrand, English mathematician (born 1597 Events January–June * January 24 – Battle of Turnhout: Maur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
