Editing 1683 in science (section)

==Institutions==
* May 24 – The [[Ashmolean Museum]] opens in [[Broad Street, Oxford]] (England) as the world's first purpose-built university museum,<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|work=The Invention of Museum Anthropology|publisher=[[Pitt Rivers Museum]]|location=Oxford|url=http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/primary-documents/primary-documents-ashmolean-museum.html|year=2012|accessdate=2019-05-25}}</ref> including accommodation for the teaching of natural philosophy and a chemistry laboratory. Naturalist Dr. [[Robert Plot]] is the first keeper and first professor of chemistry.
* October 15 – First meeting of the [[Dublin Philosophical Society]], established by [[William Molyneux]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650–1940|first1=Greta|last1=Jones|first2=Elizabeth|last2=Malcolm|year=1999|publisher=Cork University Press|page=91|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPZhfPHLiNQC&dq=%22Dublin+Philosophical+Society%22&pg=PA91|isbn=978-1-85918-230-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Memoir of the Dublin Philosophical Society of 1683|authorlink=William Wilde|first=W. R.|last=Wilde|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy|publisher=[[Royal Irish Academy]]|location=Dublin|volume=3|date=1844–47|pages=160–76|jstor=20489545}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=T. D.|last=Spearman|year=1992|title=400 Years of Mathematics|url=http://www.maths.tcd.ie/about/400Hist/6.php|publisher=[[Trinity College Dublin]]|accessdate=2014-01-09}}</ref>