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The year '''1605 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Exploration==
* [[Habitation at Port-Royal]] established by [[France]] under [[Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons]], the first European colonization of [[Nova Scotia]] in [[North America]] (at this time part of [[Acadia]]); the [[Gregorian calendar]] is adopted.

==Chemistry==
* First recorded use of the word ''[[Chemistry]]'' ("Chymistrie") in [[English language|English]], in [[Thomas Tymme]]'s ''The Practice of Chymicall and Hermeticall Physicke'', translated from [[Joseph Duchesne]].<ref>{{cite web|title=chemistry, ''n''.|work=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] online version|publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/31274?redirectedFrom=Chemistry#footerWrapper|accessdate=2011-11-02 |date=September 2011}} {{OEDsub}}</ref>
* The phenomenon of [[mechanoluminescence]] is first discovered by Sir [[Francis Bacon]] from scratching [[sugar]] with a knife.
* [[Michal Sedziwój]] publishes the alchemical treatise ''A New Light of Alchemy'' which proposes the existence of the "food of life" within air, much later recognized as [[oxygen]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sedziwój, Michal |work=infopoland: Poland on the Web |publisher=University at Buffalo |url=http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/sci_health/science/scientists/sedziwoj/link.shtml |accessdate=2007-02-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902171948/http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/sci_health/science/scientists/sedziwoj/link.shtml |archivedate=2006-09-02 }}</ref>
* [[Chartreuse (liqueur)]] is first recorded in an alchemical manuscript; it will be made by [[Carthusian]] [[monk]]s, named for the great charterhouse (''la grande Chartreuse'').

==Births==
* October 19 – [[Thomas Browne]], [[English people|English]] [[physician]] and [[encyclopedist]] (died [[1682 in science|1682]])
* [[Martin van den Hove]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[astronomer]] (died [[1639 in science|1639]])
* ''approx. date'' – [[Semyon Dezhnyov]], [[Pomor]] [[navigator]] (died [[1672 in science|1672]])

==Deaths==
* May 4 – [[Ulisse Aldrovandi]], [[Bologna|Bolognese]] [[naturalist]] (born 1522)
* December 29 – [[John Davis (English explorer)|John Davis]], [[English people|English]] [[List of explorers|explorer]] (born 1550)
* [[Roger Marbeck]], English royal [[physician]] (born [[1536 in science|1536]])

==References==
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