Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The year 1603 in science and technology involved many events, some of which are listed below. See also: 1602 in science, other events of 1603, 1604 in science, an the list of years in science. Table of contents 1 Astronomy 2 Exploration 3 General 4 Medicine 5 Births 6 Deaths Astronomy Johann Bayer publishes the star atlas Uranometria. Exploration The first sucessfull French colony in the North America, Acadia, is founded. General Accademia dei Lincei, the oldest scientific academy in the world, is founded in Rome Medicine Girolamo Fabrici studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which only allow blood to flow toward the heart. Births Abel Tasman, explorer Deaths François Vieta, mathematician. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.