1609 in science
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The year 1609 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion.
[edit] Technology
- Cornelius Drebbel invents the thermostat.
[edit] Publications
- Johannes Kepler publishes Astronomia Nova, with his first two laws of planetary motion.
- Hugo Grotius - Mare liberum.
[edit] Births
- June 29 - Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (died 1680)
- October 8 - John Clarke, English physician (died 1676)
[edit] Deaths
- Oswald Croll, German chemist and physician (born c1560)
- Charles de L'Ecluse, (or Clusius), French botanist who published one of the earliest known books on Spanish flora (born 1525)
