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The year 1600 CE in science and technology included some significant events.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Biology 3 Earth sciences 4 Exploration 5 Mathematics 6 Physics 7 Technology 8 Births 9 Deaths 10 References

Astronomy

• January 1 - Scotland adopts today as being New Year's Day.
• February 4 - Johannes Kepler joins Tycho Brahe as his assistant at the castle of Benátky, near Prague.^[1]
• February 17 - Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome.^[2]
• July - Danish astronomer Longomontanus arrives in Prague, where he works with the Moon orbital theory; he brings the rest of Tycho's astronomical instruments with him.^[2]

Biology

• University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden established.
• Olivier de Serres publishes Le Théâtre d'Agriculture in France.
• First recorded use of the word Naturalist in its modern English sense, in Christopher Sutton's Disce Mori.^[3]

Earth sciences

• February 19 - The Peruvian volcano Huaynaputina erupts catastrophically. This is the largest known volcanic explosion in South America and triggers severe global climatic events including the Russian famine of 1601–1603.^[4][5]
• William Gilbert publishes De Magnete in England, describing Earth's magnetic field; beginning of the modern science of geomagnetism.^[2]

Exploration

• January - Sebald de Weert makes the first definite sighting of the Falkland Islands.
• Tadoussac, France's first trading post on the mainland of New France (now Canada), is established.^[6]

Mathematics

• approx. date - Ludolph van Ceulen computes the first 35 decimals of pi (π).

Physics

• William Gilbert coins the Latin word "electricus" to describe electricity.

Technology

• Simon Stevin invents a carriage propelled by sails.

Births

• Early ? - Dud Dudley, English metallurgist (d. 1684)
• November - John Ogilby, Scottish cartographer (d. 1676)
• approx. date - Lionel Lockyer, English quack doctor (d. 1672)

Deaths

• February 15 - José de Acosta, Spanish naturalist (b. 1539)
• September 1 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525)

References