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The year '''1600 CE in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] included some significant events.

==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/>

==Biology==
* [[University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden]] established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://snm.ku.dk/english/about_the_museum/museetshistorie/
 |title=History of the museum  |date=2006-08-10 |website=snm.ku.dk |publisher=Natural History Museum of Denmark  |access-date=2020-12-23 }}</ref>
* [[Olivier de Serres]] publishes ''Le Théâtre d'Agriculture'' in France.
* First recorded use of the word ''[[Naturalist]]'' in its modern English sense, in Christopher Sutton's ''Disce Mori''.<ref>{{cite web|title=naturalist, ''n. and adj.''|work=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] online version|publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/125338|accessdate=2011-12-20 |date=December 2011}} {{OEDsub}}</ref>

==Earth sciences==
* February 19 – The [[Peru]]vian [[volcano]] [[Huaynaputina]] erupts catastrophically. This is the largest known volcanic explosion in South America and triggers severe global climatic events including the [[Russian famine of 1601–1603]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.geologytimes.com/Research/1600_Eruption_Caused_Global_Disruption.asp |title=1600 Eruption Caused Global Disruption |journal=Geology Times |date=2008-04-25 |accessdate=2010-11-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215095449/http://www.geologytimes.com/Research/1600_Eruption_Caused_Global_Disruption.asp |archivedate=2011-02-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Witze|first=Alexandra|title=The volcano that changed the world|work=Nature.Com News|publisher=[[Nature Publishing Group]]|date=2008-04-11|url=http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/full/news.2008.747.html|accessdate= 2008-04-14| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080517125649/http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/full/news.2008.747.html| archivedate= 17 May 2008 <!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref>
* [[William Gilbert (astronomer)|William Gilbert]] publishes ''[[De Magnete]]'' in England, describing [[Earth's magnetic field]]; beginning of the modern science of [[geomagnetism]].<ref name=tt/>

==Exploration==
* January – [[Sebald de Weert]] makes the first definite sighting of the [[Falkland Islands]].
* [[Tadoussac]], France's first [[trading post]] on the mainland of [[New France]] (now Canada), is established.<ref>{{cite DCB |first=William F. E. |last=Morley |title=Chauvin de Tonnetuit, Pierre de |volume=1 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chauvin_de_tonnetuit_pierre_de_1E.html |accessdate=2011-06-22}}</ref>

==History of science and technology==
* Approximate date – [[Stradanus]]'s engravings of notable inventions, ''Nova Reperta'', begin publication by [[Philip Galle]] in the Netherlands.

==Mathematics==
* ''approx. date'' – [[Ludolph van Ceulen]] computes the first 35 decimals of [[pi]] ([[pi|π]]).

==Physics==
* [[William Gilbert (astronomer)|William Gilbert]] coins the [[Latin]] word "electricus" to describe [[electricity]].

==Technology==
* [[Simon Stevin]] invents a [[carriage]] propelled by [[sail]]s.

==Births==
* Early ? – [[Dud Dudley]], English [[metallurgist]] (died [[1684 in science|1684]])
* November – [[John Ogilby]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[cartographer]] (died [[1676 in science|1676]])
* ''approx. date'' – [[Lionel Lockyer]], English [[quack doctor]] (died [[1672 in science|1672]])
* ''approx. date'' – [[Martine Bertereau]], French [[mineralogist]]

==Deaths==
* February 15 – [[José de Acosta]], [[Spanish people|Spanish]] [[naturalist]] (born [[1539 in science|1539]])
* February 17 – [[Giordano Bruno]] (born 1548), Italian, [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar, [[philosopher]], [[mathematician]], poet, [[astrologer]] and [[astronomer]] is [[Execution by burning|burned at the stake]] in the [[Campo de' Fiori]] by the [[Roman Inquisition]] for [[heresy]]. In the 19th and 20th centuries, he becomes regarded as a martyr for free thought<ref>{{citation |author=Arturo Labriola|title=Giordano Bruno: Martyrs of free thought no. 1}}</ref> and modern scientific ideas.
* September 1 – [[Tadeáš Hájek]], [[Czechs|Czech]] [[physician]] and [[astronomer]] (born [[1525 in science|1525]])

==References==
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