Editing 1659 in science

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The year '''1659 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* [[Christiaan Huygens]] publishes ''Systema Saturnium'', including the first illustration of the [[Orion Nebula]].

==Mathematics==
* First known use of the term ''[[Abscissa]]'', by [[Stefano degli Angeli]].<ref>According to [[Moritz Cantor]]. {{cite web|url=http://jeff560.tripod.com/a.html|title=Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (A)|work=Jeff Miller Web Pages|date=2010-11-14|accessdate=2011-04-24}}</ref>
* [[Swiss people|Swiss]] mathematician [[Johann Rahn]] publishes ''Teutsche Algebra,'' containing the first printed use of the '[[division sign]]' (÷, a repurposed [[obelus]] variant) as a mathematical symbol for [[division (mathematics)|division]] and of the '[[therefore sign]]' (∴).

==Medicine==
* [[Thomas Willis]] publishes ''De Febribus''.

==Physics==
* [[Christiaan Huygens]] derives the formula for [[centripedal force]].

==Births==
* February 27 – [[William Sherard]], [[English people|English]] [[botanist]] (died [[1728 in science|1728]])
* June 3 – [[David Gregory (mathematician)|David Gregory]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[astronomer]] (died [[1708 in science|1708]])

==Deaths==
* October 10 – [[Abel Tasman]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] explorer (born [[1603 in science|1603]])

==References==
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