1604 in science

none July 2020 1604 science 1604 The year 1604 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy 9 October – The supernova which becomes known as Kepler's Supernova (SN 1604) is first observed from northern Italy. From 17 October, Johannes Kepler begins a year's observation of it from Prague. 2006, this is the last supernova to be observed in the Milky Way, and the last visible by the naked eye until 1987.SN 1604, Kepler's Supernova http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1604.html 2011-06-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20100131163501/http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1604.html 31 January 2010http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~4~4~12406~114566:Three-Great-Eyes-on-Kepler-s-Supern Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant NASA 2011-06-22 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121101082248/http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~4~4~12406~114566%3AThree-Great-Eyes-on-Kepler-s-Supern 1 November 2012 Exploration France begins settlement in French Guiana. Russian city of Tomsk founded in Siberia.http://www.kommersant.com/t-72/r_5/n_416/Tomsk_Region/ Tomsk Region Kommersant 2011-06-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20110606082724/http://www.kommersant.com/t-72/r_5/n_416/Tomsk_Region/ 6 June 2011 Medicine Johannes Kepler describes how the eye focuses light.Astronomiae Pars Optica. Manuscript presented to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1 January. Hieronymus Fabricius's De formato foetu (On fetus development), an embryology textbook.Hieronymus Fabricius De formato foetu, liber https://books.google.com/books?id=uIVEAAAAcAAJ 1624 Jacobus De Zetter la Joseph du Chesne's la Ad veritatem hermeticae medicinae ex Hippocratis veterumque decretis ac therapeusi.Joseph Du Chesne Ad Veritatem Hermeticae Medicinae ex Hippocratis veterumque decretis ac Therapeusi https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_z2ZEYRI5qV0C 1605 Nebenius la Physics Johannes Kepler specifies the law of rectilinear propagation for light waves. Luca Valerio publishes his treatise on determining the center of gravity of solids, De centro gravitatis solidorum libri tres, in Rome. Technology 1 October – The Wollaton Wagonway, from Strelley, Nottingham, to Wollaton in England, is known to have been completed by this date, being the world's first recorded overland wagonway. It runs for approximately two miles (5 km) and is built by Huntingdon Beaumont for coal haulage.Smith Richard S. England's first rails: a reconsideration Renaissance & Modern Studies 1960 4 119–134New John 400 years of English railways: Huntingdon Beaumont and the early years BackTrack 18 2004 660–5Waggonway Research Circle The Wollaton Wagonway of 1604: the World's first overland railway http://www.waggonways.fsnet.co.uk/woll_wag_leaflet_a4.pdf 2012-01-16 August 2005 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120218183309/http://www.waggonways.fsnet.co.uk/woll_wag_leaflet_a4.pdf 18 February 2012 Births 10 March – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-born chemical engineer (died 1670)The Galileo Project http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/glauber.html galileo.rice.edu 5 April 2018 Deaths 5 June – Thomas Muffet, English naturalist and physician (born 1553) before August – William Clowes, English surgeon (born c. 1543) approximate date – Juan Fernández, Spanish explorer (born c. 1536) References Category:17th century in science Category:1600s in science