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The year '''1604 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* 9 October – The [[supernova]] which becomes known as [[Kepler's Supernova]] (SN 1604) is first observed from northern Italy. From 17 October, [[Johannes Kepler]] begins a year's observation of it from [[Prague]]. {{As of|2006}}, this is the last supernova to be observed in the [[Milky Way]], and the last visible by the naked eye until [[1987 in science|1987]].<ref>{{cite web|title=SN 1604, Kepler's Supernova|url=http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1604.html|accessdate=2011-06-22| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100131163501/http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1604.html| archivedate=31 January 2010<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~4~4~12406~114566:Three-Great-Eyes-on-Kepler-s-Supern |title=Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant |publisher=[[NASA]] |accessdate=2011-06-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101082248/http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~4~4~12406~114566%3AThree-Great-Eyes-on-Kepler-s-Supern |archivedate=1 November 2012 }}</ref>

==Exploration==
* [[France]] begins settlement in [[French Guiana]].
* [[Russia]]n city of [[Tomsk]] founded in [[Siberia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kommersant.com/t-72/r_5/n_416/Tomsk_Region/|title=Tomsk Region|work=[[Kommersant]]|accessdate=2011-06-22| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110606082724/http://www.kommersant.com/t-72/r_5/n_416/Tomsk_Region/| archivedate= 6 June 2011 <!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref>

==Medicine==
* [[Johannes Kepler]] describes how the [[Human eye|eye]] focuses [[light]].<ref name=Kepler>''[[Johannes Kepler#Astronomiae Pars Optica|Astronomiae Pars Optica]]''. Manuscript presented to [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor]], 1 January.</ref>
* [[Hieronymus Fabricius]]'s ''De formato foetu'' (On fetus development), an embryology textbook.<ref name="Fabricius1624">{{cite book|author=Hieronymus Fabricius|title=De formato foetu, liber|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIVEAAAAcAAJ|year=1624|publisher=Jacobus De Zetter|language=la}}</ref>
* [[Joseph du Chesne]]'s {{lang|la|Ad veritatem hermeticae medicinae ex Hippocratis veterumque decretis ac therapeusi}}.<ref name="Chesne1605">{{cite book|author=Joseph Du Chesne|title=Ad Veritatem Hermeticae Medicinae ex Hippocratis veterumque decretis ac Therapeusi|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_z2ZEYRI5qV0C|year=1605|publisher=Nebenius|language=la}}</ref>

==Physics==
* Johannes Kepler specifies the law of [[rectilinear propagation]] for [[light]] waves.<ref name=Kepler/>
* [[Luca Valerio]] publishes his treatise on determining the [[center of gravity]] of solids, ''De centro gravitatis solidorum libri tres'', in [[Rome]].

==Technology==
* 1 October – The [[Wollaton Wagonway]], from [[Strelley, Nottingham]], to [[Wollaton]] in [[England]], is known to have been completed by this date, being the world's first recorded overland [[wagonway]]. It runs for approximately two miles (5&nbsp;km) and is built by [[Huntingdon Beaumont]] for [[coal]] haulage.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Richard S.|title=England's first rails: a reconsideration|journal=Renaissance & Modern Studies|year=1960|volume=4|pages=119–134}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=New|first=John|title=400 years of English railways: Huntingdon Beaumont and the early years|journal=[[BackTrack (magazine)|BackTrack]]|volume=18|year=2004|pages=660–5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Waggonway Research Circle |title=The Wollaton Wagonway of 1604: the World's first overland railway |url=http://www.waggonways.fsnet.co.uk/woll_wag_leaflet_a4.pdf |accessdate=2012-01-16 |date=August 2005 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218183309/http://www.waggonways.fsnet.co.uk/woll_wag_leaflet_a4.pdf |archivedate=18 February 2012 }}</ref>

==Births==
* 10 March – [[Johann Rudolf Glauber]], [[Germany|German]]-born [[chemical engineer]] (died [[1670 in science|1670]])<ref>{{cite web|title=The Galileo Project|url=http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/glauber.html|website=galileo.rice.edu|accessdate=5 April 2018}}</ref>

==Deaths==
* 5 June – [[Thomas Muffet]], [[English people|English]] [[naturalist]] and [[physician]] (born [[1553 in science|1553]])
* before August – [[William Clowes (surgeon)|William Clowes]], [[English people|English]] [[surgeon]] (born c. [[1543 in science|1543]])
* ''approximate date'' – [[Juan Fernández (explorer)|Juan Fernández]], [[Spanish people|Spanish]] [[explorer]] (born c. [[1536 in science|1536]])

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