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.[1]
Medicine
- Giovanni Antonio Magini defends the use of astrology in medicine in his De astrologica ratione (published in Venice).[2]
Technology
Zoology
- Edward Topsell's bestiary The Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts is published in London by William Jaggard.[4]
Births
- between 31 October and 6 December â Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
Deaths
- 6 January â Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician (born 1545)[5]
- 28 June â Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (born 1543)[6]
- 22 August â Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (born 1572)[7]
- Georg Bartisch, German physician and ophthalmologist (born 1535)[8]