1605 in science

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The year 1605 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Exploration

• France founds Port Royal in its North American colony of Acadia (now Nova Scotia).

Chemistry

• First recorded use of the word Chemistry ("Chymistrie") in English, in Thomas Tymme's The Practice of Chymicall and Hermeticall Physicke, translated from Joseph Duchesne.
• The phenomenon of mechanoluminescence is first discovered by Sir Francis Bacon from scratching sugar with a knife.

Technology

• Chartreuse is invented, a liqueur still made by Carthusian monks, named for the great charterhouse (la grande Chartreuse).

Births

• October 19 - Thomas Browne, English physician and encyclopedist (d. 1682)
• Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer (d. 1639)
• approx. date - Semyon Dezhnyov, Pomor navigator (d. 1672)

Deaths

• May 4 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Bolognese naturalist (b. 1522)
• December 29 - John Davis, English explorer (b. 1550)
• Roger Marbeck, English royal physician (b. 1536)