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1607 in science

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1607 in science

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The year 1607 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

  • Johannes Kepler records the appearance and motion of a comet, later to be known as Comet Halley.

Medicine

  • Giovanni Antonio Magini defends the use of astrology in medicine in his De astrologica ratione (published in Venice).

Technology

  • Howitzers are invented, by a Frenchman.

Zoology

  • Edward Topsell's bestiary The Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts is published in London by William Jaggard.

Births

  • between 31 October and 6 December – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)

Deaths

  • 6 January – Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician (born 1545)
  • 28 June – Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (born 1543)
  • 22 August – Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (born 1572)
  • Georg Bartisch, German physician and ophthalmologist (born 1535)

References

References

  1. (2015). "Atlas of Great Comets". Cambridge University Press.
  2. (2014). "Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation". BRILL.
  3. (1828). "The American Quarterly Review". Carey, Lea & Carey.
  4. "The familiar and the fantastic: The historie of foure-footed beastes by Edward Topsell, 1607.".
  5. "The Galileo Project".
  6. "The Theater that was Rome - Biography".
  7. "Bartholomew Gosnold - English explorer".
  8. "Georg Bartisch (1535-1607)".
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