1601 in science
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The year 1601 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
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Computer science
- January 1 – Retrospectively the epoch reference date from which ANSI dates are counted in COBOL and other computer languages, and the base of file and Active Directory Logon dates in Microsoft Windows.[1][2]
Exploration
- August 26 – Olivier van Noort completes his circumnavigation of the world.
Mathematics
- Johannes Kepler is appointed imperial mathematician to the Habsburg Empire.
Physiology and medicine
- Giulio Cesare Casseri publishes a treatise on the anatomy of the vocal and auditory organs Latin: De vocis auditusque organis historia anatomica in Ferrara.
Births
- August 20 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
- possible date – Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester, English inventor (d. 1667)
Deaths
- October 24 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
