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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
- 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
- between 31 October and 6 December – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
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)
- Georg Bartisch, German physician and ophthalmologist (born 1535)
References
- Stoyan, Ronald (2015). Atlas of Great Comets. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9781316195727.
- Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (2014). Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation. BRILL. p. 141. ISBN 9789004254503.
- Walsh, Robert (1828). The American Quarterly Review. Carey, Lea & Carey. p. 494.
- "The familiar and the fantastic: The historie of foure-footed beastes by Edward Topsell, 1607". Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- "The Galileo Project". galileo.rice.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- "The Theater that was Rome - Biography". library.brown.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- "Bartholomew Gosnold - English explorer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- "Georg Bartisch (1535-1607)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 3 April 2018.