1605 in science
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The year 1605 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Exploration
- France founds Port Royal in its North American colony of Acadia (now Nova Scotia).
[edit] 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.[1]
- The phenomenon of mechanoluminescence is first discovered by Sir Francis Bacon from scratching sugar with a knife.
[edit] Technology
- Chartreuse is invented, a liqueur still made by Carthusian monks, named for the great charterhouse (la grande Chartreuse).
[edit] 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)
[edit] Deaths
- May 4 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Bolognese naturalist (b. 1522)
- December 29 - John Davis, English explorer (b. 1550)
- Roger Marbeck, English royal physician (b. 1536)
[edit] References
- ^ "chemistry, n.". Oxford English Dictionary online version. Oxford University Press. September 2011. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/31274?redirectedFrom=Chemistry#footerWrapper. Retrieved 2011-11-02. subscription or UK public library membership required
