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1 Exploration

• December 31 - British East India Company is founded.
• Tadoussac, France's first trading post on the mainland of New France (now Canada), is established

2 Geology

• William Gilbert publishes De Magnete which describes the Earth's magnetic field and is the beginning of modern geomagnetism.

3 Mathematics

• Ludolph van CeulenLudolph van Ceulen ( 28 January 1540 31 December 1610) was a German mathematician who emigrated to the Netherlands. Born in Hildesheim, Germany, he moved to Delft to teach fencing and mathematics. In 1594 he opened a fencing school in Leiden. In 1600 he w computed the first 35 decimals of πOr pi with a lower-case p . minuscule, or lower-case, pi The mathematical constant (written as pi when the Greek letter is not available) is ubiquitous in mathematics and physics. In Euclidean plane geometry, π may be defined as either the ratio of a c at about this time.

4 Physics

• William Gilbert coins the word electricityElectricity is a property of certain subatomic particles, such as electrons and protons, that gives rise to attractive and repulsive forces between them. It is one of the four fundamental forces of nature, and is a conserved property of matter that can be.

5 Technology

• Simon StevinSimon Stevin ( 1548/ 49 1620) was a Dutch mathematician. Biography Stevin was born in Bruges, Flanders. Of the circumstances of his life very little is recorded; the exact day of his birth and the day and place of his death ( The Hague or Leiden) are alik invents a carriageThe classic definition of a carriage is a four-wheeled horse-drawn private passenger vehicle with leaf springs or leather strapping for suspension, especially one that is large and comfortable. Compare the public conveyances stagecoach, charabanc, and omn propelled by sailA sail is a surface intended to generate thrust by being placed in a wind. Depending on the incident angle of the wind on the surface of the sail, one side of the sail will have a higher air pressure than the other one according to Bernoulli's principle.s.

6 Births

• John OgilbyJohn Ogilby ( 1600- 1676) was a British writer and cartographer. He was born in or near Edinburgh in November 1600. His father was a prisoner within the jurisdiction of the King's Bench (see High Court of England and Wales), presumably for bankruptcy or d, cartographer

7 Deaths