1615 in science
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The year 1615 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Johannes Kepler publishes Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo in response to Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons.
[edit] Natural history
- Posthumous publication in Mexico of Plantas y Animales de la Nueva Espana, y sus virtudes por Francisco Hernandez, y de Latin en Romance por Fr. Francisco Ximenez.
[edit] Technology
- The first known solar-activated device, a water pumping machine, is invented.
[edit] Births
- Nicasius le Febure, French chemist (d. 1669)
- Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician who popularized the analytic geometry of Descartes (d. 1660)
[edit] Deaths
- February 4 - Giambattista della Porta, Italian physician (b. c.1535)
- May 4 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
- November - Edward Wright, English mathematician (b. 1561)
- November 24 - Sethus Calvisius, German musician and astronomer (b. 1556)
- Timothy Bright, English physician (b. c.1551)
- Heo Jun, Korean physician (b. 1546)
- Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi, Italian historian and physician
