Editing 1600 in science (section)

==Astronomy==
* January 1 – [[Scotland]] adopts January 1st as being [[New Year's Day]].
* February 4 – [[Johannes Kepler]] joins [[Tycho Brahe]] as his assistant at the castle of [[Benátky nad Jizerou|Benátky]], near [[Prague]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Surprenante gravité|series=Focus science|first=François|last=Rothen|publisher=[[Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes]]|year=2009|isbn=978-2-88074-774-9|page=61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fok93e_83NwC&pg=PA161|accessdate=2011-08-05}}</ref>
* February 17 – [[Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake for [[heresy]] in Rome.<ref name=tt>{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=0-671-74919-6|chapter=1600|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun}}</ref>
* July – Danish [[astronomer]] [[Longomontanus]] arrives in [[Prague]], where he works with the Moon orbital theory; he brings the rest of [[Tycho Brahe|Tycho]]'s astronomical instruments with him.<ref name=tt/>