1627 in science
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The year 1627 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- Johannes Kepler's Rudolphine Tables are published. These include predictions of Transits of Mercury and Venus.
Exploration
- The Dutch ship the Gulden Zeepaert, skippered by Francois Thijssen, sails along the south coast of Australia.
Medicine
- Adriaan van den Spiegel's De humani corporis fabrica is published posthumously in Venice with illustrations by Giulio Casserio.
Births
- January 25 - Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist (died 1691)
- November 29 - John Ray, English naturalist (died 1705)
Deaths
- February 22 - Olivier van Noort Dutch circumnavigator (born 1558)
- July 20 - Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Icelandic mathematician and cartographer (born 1541)
- October 21 - Frederick de Houtman, Dutch explorer (born 1571)
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