1663 in science
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The year 1663 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- James Gregory publishes Optica Promota, describing the Gregorian telescope.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
- August 31 - Guillaume Amontons, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (d. 1705)
[edit] Deaths
- December 28 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian physicist (b. 1618)
