1607 in science
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The year 1607 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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 (born 1545)
- 28 June - Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (born 1543)
- 22 August - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (born 1572)
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