1627 in science
The year 1627 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Astronomy
- Johannes Kepler's Rudolphine Tables are published.[1]
Exploration
- January – The Dutch ship 't Gulden Zeepaert, skippered by François Thijssen, sails along the south coast of Australia.[2]
Medicine
- Adriaan van den Spiegel's De humani corporis fabrica is published posthumously in Venice with illustrations by Giulio Casserio.[3]
- Gaspare Aselli's De lactibus sive lacteis venis is published posthumously in Milan.[4]
Publications
- Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, or A Natural History and New Atlantis are published posthumously.[5]
Births
- January 25 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist (died 1691)[6]
- November 29 – John Ray, English naturalist (died 1705)[7]
Deaths
- February 22 – Olivier van Noort Dutch circumnavigator (born 1558)[8]
- July 20 – Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Icelandic mathematician and cartographer (born 1541)[9]
- October 21 – Frederick de Houtman, Dutch explorer (born 1571)[10]
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References
- "Rudolphine Tables - astronomy". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- Australia on the Map, 1606-2006: Ages 11. R.I.C. Publications. 2005. p. 30. ISBN 9781741263596.
- "Historical Anatomies on the Web: Speigel & Casseri:: Author & Title Description". www.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- "Gaspare Aselli - Italian physician". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- "Collection Highlight: Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum". rbscp.lib.rochester.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- "January 25 : Anglo-Irish chemist Robert Boyle was born on this day in 1627". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- "John Ray". www.ucmp.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- Long, Isaac Le (1793). Kabinet van Nederlandsche en Kleefsche oudheden, (in Dutch). by J.A. Crajenschot. p. 416.
- Roiss, Silvia; Gil, Carlos Fortea (2011). En las vertientes de la traducción e interpretación del/al alemán (in Spanish). Frank & Timme GmbH. p. 185. ISBN 9783865963260.
- Lohuizen, J. Van. "Houtman, Frederik de (1571–1627)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
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