1615 in science

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The year 1615 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Natural history
3 Technology
4 Births
5 Deaths

Astronomy

Johannes Kepler publishes Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo in response to Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons.

Natural history

Posthumous publication in Mexico of Plantas y Animales de la Nueva Espana, y sus virtudes por Francisco Hernandez, y de Latin en Romance por Fr. Francisco Ximenez.

Technology

The first known solar-activated device, a water pumping machine, is invented.

Births

Nicasius le Febure, French chemist (d. 1669)
Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician who popularized the analytic geometry of Descartes (d. 1660)

Deaths

February 4 - Giambattista della Porta, Italian physician (b. c.1535)
May 4 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
November - Edward Wright, English mathematician (b. 1561)
November 24 - Sethus Calvisius, German musician and astronomer (b. 1556)
Timothy Bright, English physician (b. c.1551)
Heo Jun, Korean physician (b. 1546)
Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi, Italian historian and physician