Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 1601 in science The year 1601 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below. See also: 1600 in science, other events of 1601, 1602 in science, and the list of years in science. Table of contents 1 Exploration 2 Mathematics 3 Births 4 Deaths Exploration Olivier van Noort completes his circumnavigation of the world. Mathematics Johannes Kepler is appointed imperial mathematician to the Hapsburg Empire. Births August 20 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician. Deaths Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.