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词条 1609 in science
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  1. Astronomy

  2. Biology

  3. Exploration

  4. Medicine

  5. Technology

  6. Births

  7. Deaths

  8. References

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The year 1609 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

  • July 26 – English scientist Thomas Harriot becomes the first to draw an astronomical object after viewing it through a telescope: he draws a map of the Moon, preceding Galileo by several months.[1][2]
  • Johannes Kepler publishes Astronomia nova, containing his first two laws of planetary motion.

Biology

  • Charles Butler publishes The Feminine Monarchie, or, A Treatise Concerning Bees.

Exploration

  • April 4 – Henry Hudson sets out from Amsterdam in the Halve Maen.[3]
    • August 28 – Hudson finds Delaware Bay.
    • September 11–12 – Hudson sails into Upper New York Bay[4] and begins a journey up the Hudson River.[5]

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.[6]
  • Jacques Guillemeau publishes De l'heureux accouchement des femmes in which he describes a method of assisted breech delivery.

Technology

  • Cornelius Drebbel invents the thermostat.

Births

  • June 29 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (died 1680)
  • October 8 – John Clarke, English physician (died 1676)

Deaths

  • March 26 – John Dee, English alchemist, astrologer and mathematician (born 1527)[7]
  • April 4 – Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist (born 1525)
  • August 4 - Joseph Duchesne, French physician and alchemist (born c.1544)
  • December – Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist (born c. 1563)
  • André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (born 1558)

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7827732.stm|first=Christine|last=McGourty|title='English Galileo' maps on display|publisher=BBC News|date=2009-01-14|accessdate=2012-07-04}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/harriot_moon.html|work=The Galileo Project|title=Thomas Harriot's Moon Drawings|year=1995|accessdate=2012-07-04}}
3. ^{{cite book|last=Hunter|first=Douglas|year=2009|title=Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury Press|isbn=1-59691-680-X|page=11}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://blog.insidetheapple.net/2008/09/new-yorks-many-911-anniversaries-staten.html|last=Nevius|first=Michelle|author2=James|title=New York's many 9/11 anniversaries: the Staten Island Peace Conference|work=Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City|date=2008-09-08|accessdate=2011-10-25}}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Juet|first=Robert|chapter=Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage|year=1625|title=Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes|volume=4|editor=Purchas, Samuel}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Anzovin|first=Steven|title=Famous First Facts|year=2000|publisher=H. W. Wilson Co|isbn=0-8242-0958-3}}
7. ^{{cite web|first=R. Julian|last=Roberts|title=Dee, John (1527–1609)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7418|accessdate=2011-04-18|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/7418}} {{ODNBsub}}

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