1607 in science

The year 1607 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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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

• Howitzers are invented, by a Frenchman.^[3]

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 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)

Deaths

• 6 January – Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician (born 1545)^[5]
• 28 June – Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (born 1543)^[6]
• 22 August – Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (born 1572)^[7]
• Georg Bartisch, German physician and ophthalmologist (born 1535)^[8]