1609 in science
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The year 1609 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Johannes Kepler publishes Astronomia nova, containing his first two laws of planetary motion.
[edit] Biology
- Charles Butler publishes The Feminine Monarchie, or, A Treatise Concerning Bees.
[edit] Exploration
- April 4 - Henry Hudson's sets out from Amsterdam in the Halve Maen.[1]
- August 28 - Hudson finds Delaware Bay.
- September 11–12 - Hudson sails into Upper New York Bay[2] and begins a journey up the Hudson River.[3]
[edit] Medicine
- Louise Bourgeois Boursier publishes Diverse Observations on Sterility; Loss of the Ovum after Fecundation, Fecundity and Childbirth; Diseases of Women and of Newborn Infants in Paris, the first book on obstetrics written by a woman.[4]
- Jacques Guillemeau publishes De l'heureux accouchement des femmes in which he describes a method of assisted breech delivery.
[edit] Technology
- Cornelius Drebbel invents the thermostat.
[edit] Births
- June 29 - Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (died 1680)
- October 8 - John Clarke, English physician (died 1676)
[edit] Deaths
- March 26 - John Dee, English alchemist, astrologer and mathematician (born 1527)[5]
- April 4 - Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist (b. 1525)
- December - Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist (b. c.1563)
- André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (b. 1558)
[edit] References
- ^ Hunter, Douglas (2009). Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World. London: Bloomsbury Press. p. 11. ISBN 1-59691-680-X.
- ^ Nevius, Michelle; James (2008-09-08). "New York's many 9/11 anniversaries: the Staten Island Peace Conference". Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City. http://blog.insidetheapple.net/2008/09/new-yorks-many-911-anniversaries-staten.html. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
- ^ Juet, Robert (1609). "Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage from the 1625 edition of Purchas His Pilgrimes and transcribed 2006 by Brea Barthel" (PDF). http://www.halfmoon.mus.ny.us/Juets-modified.pdf. Retrieved 2009-10-22.[dead link]
- ^ Anzovin, Steven (2000). Famous First Facts. H. W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0-8242-0958-3.
- ^ Roberts, R. Julian (2004). "Dee, John (1527–1609)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7418. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7418. Retrieved 2011-04-18. subscription or UK public library membership required
