Editing 1619 in science

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The year '''1619 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
[[File:El mundo físico, 1882 "Keplero" (4031762232).jpg|thumb|240px|right| Publication of [[Johannes Kepler]]'s [[Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion|third law of planetary motion]] in his ''[[Harmonices Mundi]]''. He also recognises the duality of convex polyhedra]]
* Publication of [[Johannes Kepler]]'s [[Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion|third law of planetary motion]] in his ''[[Harmonices Mundi]]''. He also recognises the duality of convex polyhedra.
* Publication of the [[Jesuits|Jesuit]] [[Giuseppe Biancani]]'s ''Sphaera mundi, seu cosmographia demonstrativa, ac facili methodo tradita'' in [[Bologna]].

==Biochemistry==
* [[Lactose]] is discovered by [[Fabriccio Bartoletti]]; the word ''lactose'' comes from the Latin word ''lac'' which means "milk".

==Exploration==
* In [[North America]], the [[Churchill River (Hudson Bay)|Churchill River]] is discovered by Danish explorer [[Jens Munk]], and it will be used for over 100 years as a trading route of the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] from their fort at its mouth to the interior.
* [[Frederick de Houtman]] and [[Jans van Edel]] discover the [[Houtman Abrolhos]] islands.<ref>{{cite book|first=Isaac|last=Taylor|title=Names and Their Histories: a Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature|url=https://archive.org/details/namesandtheirhi01taylgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/namesandtheirhi01taylgoog/page/n163 149]|publisher=Rivingtons|location=London|year=1898}}</ref>

==Medicine==
*[[Dermod O'Meara]]'s text on [[genetic disorder]]s, ''De Moribus: Pathologia Haereditaria Generalis'' is published in [[Dublin]],<ref name=Chronology>{{cite book|editor=Moody, T. W.|title=A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2|display-editors=etal}}</ref> the first medical text published in [[Ireland]].

==Metallurgy==
* Sir Basil Brooke produces [[steel]] using a [[reverbatory furnace]] in [[Coalbrookdale]], [[England]].

==Births==
* ''probable date'' – [[Daniel Whistler]], [[English people|English]] [[physician]] (died [[1684 in science|1684]])

==Deaths==
* May 21 – [[Hieronymus Fabricius]], [[Italians|Italian]] [[anatomist]] and [[embryologist]] (born [[1537 in science|1537]])
* September – [[Hans Lippershey]], [[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] [[Lens (optics)|lens]]maker, credited with inventing the telescope in [[1608 in science|1608]] (born c. [[1570 in science|1570]])
* [[Olivier de Serres]], [[French people|French]] soil scientist (born [[1539 in science|1539]])
* [[Caterina Vitale]], Maltese chemist (born [[1566 in science|1566]])

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