Editing 1607 in science

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

==Astronomy==
* [[Johannes Kepler]] records the appearance and motion of a comet, later to be known as [[Comet Halley]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stoyan|first1=Ronald|title=Atlas of Great Comets|date=2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781316195727|page=63|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEF5BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA63|language=en}}</ref>

==Medicine==
* [[Giovanni Antonio Magini]] defends the use of [[astrology]] in medicine in his ''[http://www.bsb-muenchen-digital.de/~web/web1004/bsb10049207/images/index.html?digID=bsb10049207&pimage=00003&v=2p&md=0&nav=0&l=en De astrologica ratione]'' (published in [[Venice]]).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Omodeo|first1=Pietro Daniel|title=Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation|date=2014|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004254503|page=141|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mUr3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA141|language=en}}</ref>

==Technology==
* [[Howitzer]]s are invented, by a Frenchman.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Walsh|first1=Robert|title=The American Quarterly Review|date=1828|publisher=Carey, Lea & Carey|page=494|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kNYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA494|language=en}}</ref>

==Zoology==
* [[Edward Topsell]]'s [[bestiary]] ''The Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts'' is published in [[London]] by [[William Jaggard]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The familiar and the fantastic: The historie of foure-footed beastes by Edward Topsell, 1607.|url=https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-publications/library/blog/the-familiar-and-the-fantastic/|website=Royal College of Surgeons|accessdate=3 April 2018|language=en}}</ref>

==Births==
* between 31 October and 6 December – [[Pierre de Fermat]], [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]] (d. [[1665 in science|1665]])

==Deaths==
* 6 January – [[Guidobaldo del Monte]], [[Italian people|Italian]] [[mathematician]] (born [[1545 in science|1545]])<ref>{{cite web|title=The Galileo Project|url=http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/monte.html|website=galileo.rice.edu|accessdate=3 April 2018}}</ref>
* 28 June – [[Domenico Fontana]], Italian [[architect]] (born [[1543 in science|1543]])<ref>{{cite web|title=The Theater that was Rome - Biography|url=https://library.brown.edu/projects/rome/people/0120/|website=library.brown.edu|accessdate=3 April 2018}}</ref>
* 22 August – [[Bartholomew Gosnold]], [[English people|English]] [[explorer]] and [[privateer]] (born [[1572 in science|1572]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Bartholomew Gosnold - English explorer|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bartholomew-Gosnold|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=3 April 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Georg Bartisch]], [[Germans|German]] [[physician]] and [[ophthalmologist]] (born [[1535 in science|1535]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Georg Bartisch (1535-1607)|url=http://data.bnf.fr/15059162/georg_bartisch/|website=data.bnf.fr|accessdate=3 April 2018|language=en}}</ref>

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