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The year 1609 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Title Page of Kepler's Astronomia nova
AstronomyEdit
- July 26 – English scientist Thomas Harriot becomes the first to draw an astronomical object after viewing it through a telescope: he draws a map of the Moon, preceding Galileo by several months.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Johannes Kepler publishes Astronomia nova, containing his first two laws of planetary motion.
BiologyEdit
- Charles Butler publishes The Feminine Monarchie, or, A Treatise Concerning Bees.
ExplorationEdit
- April 4 – Henry Hudson sets out from Amsterdam in the Halve Maen.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- August 28 – Hudson finds Delaware Bay.
- September 11–12 – Hudson sails into Upper New York Bay<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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MedicineEdit
- Louise Bourgeois Boursier publishes Diverse Observations on Sterility; Loss of the Ovum after Fecundation, Fecundity and Childbirth; Diseases of Women and of Newborn Infants in Paris, the first book on obstetrics written by a woman.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Jacques Guillemeau publishes De l'heureux accouchement des femmes in which he describes a method of assisted breech delivery.
TechnologyEdit
- Cornelius Drebbel invents the thermostat.
BirthsEdit
- June 29 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (died 1680)
- October 8 – John Clarke, English physician (died 1676)
DeathsEdit
- March 26 – John Dee, English alchemist, astrologer and mathematician (born 1527)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- April 4 – Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist (born 1525)
- August 4 – Joseph Duchesne, French physician and alchemist (born c.1544).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- August 16 – André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (born 1558).<ref name="Bayle1711">Template:Cite book</ref>
- December – Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist (born c. 1563)