1607 in science

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

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Medicine
3 Technology
4 Zoology
5 Births
6 Deaths

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

A thermometer is invented by Galileo.
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

Deaths

6 January - Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician (b. 1545)
28 June - Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (b. 1543)
22 August - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)