1609 in science

none 1609 science 1609 The year 1609 in science and technology involved some significant events. thumb|left|175px|Title Page of Kepler's Astronomia nova Astronomy 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.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7827732.stm Christine McGourty 'English Galileo' maps on display BBC News 2009-01-14 2012-07-04http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/harriot_moon.html The Galileo Project Thomas Harriot's Moon Drawings 1995 2012-07-04 Johannes Kepler publishes Astronomia nova, containing his first two laws of planetary motion. Biology Charles Butler publishes The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees, the first full-length English-language treatise on the science of beekeeping. Exploration April 4 – Henry Hudson sets out from Amsterdam in the Halve Maen.Hunter Douglas 2009 Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World London Bloomsbury Press 1-59691-680-X 11 https://archive.org/details/halfmoonhenryhud00hunt/page/11 August 28 – Hudson finds Delaware Bay. September 11–12 – Hudson sails into Upper New York Bayhttp://blog.insidetheapple.net/2008/09/new-yorks-many-911-anniversaries-staten.html Nevius Michelle James New York's many 9/11 anniversaries: the Staten Island Peace Conference Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City 2008-09-08 2011-10-25 and begins a journey up the Hudson River.Juet Robert Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage 1625 Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes 4 Purchas, Samuel Samuel Purchas Medicine 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.Anzovin Steven Famous First Facts 2000 H. W. Wilson Co 0-8242-0958-3 https://archive.org/details/famousfirstfacts00anzo Jacques Guillemeau publishes De l'heureux accouchement des femmes in which he describes a method of assisted breech delivery. Technology Cornelius Drebbel invents the thermostat. Births June 29 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (died 1680) October 8 – John Clarke, English physician (died 1676) Deaths March 26 – John Dee, English alchemist, astrologer and mathematician (born 1527)R. Julian Roberts Dee, John (1527–1609) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7418 2011-04-18 10.1093/ref:odnb/7418 April 4 – Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist (born 1525) August 4 – Joseph Duchesne, French physician and alchemist (born c.1544).Joseph Du Chesne (Sieur de la Violette, 1544-1609) https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12396854/joseph_du_chesne/ data.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France 23 December 2020 August 16 – André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (born 1558).Pierre Bayle Dictionnaire historique et critique https://books.google.com/books?id=4FpDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA69 1711 P. Brunel 69 December – Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist (born c. 1563) References Category:17th century in science Category:1600s in science