1605 in science
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The year 1605 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Exploration
- France founds Port Royal (now Port Royal, Nova Scotia) in its North American colony of Acadia.
[edit] Chemistry
- The phenomenon of mechanoluminescence is first discovered by Sir Francis Bacon from scratching sugar with a knife.
[edit] Technology
- Chartreuse is invented, a liqueur still made by the Carthusian monks, named for the great charterhouse (la grande Chartreuse).
[edit] Births
- Semyon Dezhnev, navigator (died 1673)
- Sir Thomas Browne, physician, encyclopedist (died 1682)
[edit] Deaths
- John Davis, explorer (born 1550)
