1619 in science
The year 1619 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Astronomy
- Publication of Johannes Kepler's third law of planetary motion in his Harmonices Mundi. He also recognises the duality of convex polyhedra.
- Publication of the 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 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.[1]
Medicine
- Dermod O'Meara's text on genetic disorders, De Moribus: Pathologia Haereditaria Generalis is published in Dublin,[2] 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 physician (died 1684)
Deaths
- May 21 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist and embryologist (born 1537)
- September – Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker, credited with inventing the telescope in 1608 (born c. 1570)
- Olivier de Serres, French soil scientist (born 1539)
- Caterina Vitale, Maltese chemist (born 1566)
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References
- Taylor, Isaac (1898). Names and Their Histories: a Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature. London: Rivingtons. p. 149.
- Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
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