1683 in science

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The year 1683 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Geography

Vincenzo Coronelli completes terrestrial and celestial globes for Louis XIV of France.

September 17 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society of London describing "animalcules" – the first known description of protozoa.^[1]

Based on his discovery of the resultant, Seki Takakazu starts to develop elimination theory in the Kai-fukudai-no-hō (解伏題之法,); and to express the resultant, he develops the notion of the determinant.^[2]
Jacob Bernoulli discovers the mathematical constant e.^[3]

Dutch physician Willem ten Rhijne publishes Dissertatio de Arthritide: Mantissa Schematica: De Acupunctura in London, introducing the West to acupuncture and moxibustion.

Vauban's manual on fortification, Le Directeur-Général des fortifications, begins publication at The Hague.

May 24 – The Ashmolean Museum opens in Broad Street, Oxford (England) as the world's first purpose-built university museum,^[4] 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.^[5]^[6]^[7]