1605 in science
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The year 1605 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Exploration
- Habitation at Port-Royal established by France under Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, the first European colonization of Nova Scotia in North America (at this time part of Acadia); the Gregorian calendar is adopted.
Chemistry
- First recorded use of the word Chemistry ("Chymistrie") in English, in Thomas Tymme's The Practice of Chymicall and Hermeticall Physicke, translated from Joseph Duchesne.[1]
- The phenomenon of mechanoluminescence is first discovered by Sir Francis Bacon from scratching sugar with a knife.
- Michal Sedziwój publishes the alchemical treatise A New Light of Alchemy which proposes the existence of the "food of life" within air, much later recognized as oxygen.[2]
- Chartreuse (liqueur) is first recorded in an alchemical manuscript; it will be made by Carthusian monks, named for the great charterhouse (la grande Chartreuse).
Births
- October 19 â Thomas Browne, English physician and encyclopedist (died 1682)
- Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer (died 1639)
- approx. date â Semyon Dezhnyov, Pomor navigator (died 1672)
Deaths
- May 4 â Ulisse Aldrovandi, Bolognese naturalist (born 1522)
- December 29 â John Davis, English explorer (born 1550)
- Roger Marbeck, English royal physician (born 1536)