1601 in science

The year 1601 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

List of years in science (table)


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

Mathematics

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

Deaths

gollark: comprehensibility.
gollark: We need to distinguish between readable and comorehensiivlity.
gollark: Well, you can nest them, presumably.
gollark: No. They're not composable or anything.
gollark: Being able to read the low-level structure of the code (oh, this is looping over a thing and doing another thing) IS NOT THE SAME as UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT DOES AND WHY!

References

  1. "INFO: Working with the FILETIME Structure". Microsoft. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  2. "Dandelions, VCR Clocks, and Last Logon Times: These Are a Few of Our Least Favorite Things". Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2009-03-08. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
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