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an the list of years in science.

1 Astronomy

• Johann Bayer publishes the star atlas Uranometria .

2 Exploration

• The first successful French colony in the North America, Acadia, is founded.

3 General

• Accademia dei Lincei, the oldest scientific academy in the world, is founded in Rome

4 Medicine

• Girolamo Fabrici studies leg veinIn geology, a vein is a regularly shaped and lengthy occurrence of an ore; a lode. In biology, a vein is a blood vessel which returns blood from the microvasculature to the heart. Veins form part of the circulatory system. The vessels carrying blood aways and notices that they have valveA valve is a mechanical device that regulates the flow of fluids (either gases, fluidised solids, slurries or liquids) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways. There are a number of names for particular types of valve: Ball cock,s which only allow bloodBlood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells ( red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). Medical terms related to blood often begin in hemo or hemato ( BE: haemo and haemato from the Greek word for "blood". Blood of different spe to flow toward the heartThis page is about the muscular organ, the Heart . For other meanings of the word, see Heart (disambiguation). The heart ( Latin cor is a hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. The term cardia.

5 Births

• Abel TasmanAbel Janszoon Tasman ( 1603 1659) was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, born in Lutjegast, a village in the province of Groningen, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644, in the service of the VOC ( Dutch East India Company). His was the first European, explorer

6 Deaths

• François VièteFrancois Viete (or Vieta , seigneur de la Bigotiere ( 1540 December 13, 1603), generally known as Franciscus Vieta was a French mathematician. He was born at Fontenay-le-Comte, in Poitou, and is believed to have been brought up as a Roman Catholic; but th, mathematicianA mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. Roles Mathematicians not only study, but also research, and this must be given prominent mention here, because a misconception that everything in mathematics is already known is.