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- Astronomy
- Biochemistry
- Exploration
- Medicine
- Metallurgy
- Births
- Deaths
- References
{{Refimprove|date=December 2009}}{{Year nav topic5|1619|science}}The year 1619 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy- Publication of Johannes Kepler's third law of planetary motion in his Harmonices Mundi. He also recognises the duality of convex polyhedra.
- Publication of the Jesuit Giuseppe Biancani's Sphaera mundi, seu cosmographia demonstrativa, ac facili methodo tradita in Bologna.
Biochemistry- Lactose is discovered by Fabriccio Bartoletti; the word lactose comes from the Latin word lac which means "milk".
Exploration- In North America, the Churchill River is discovered by Danish explorer Jens Munk, and it will be used for over 100 years as a trading route of the Hudson's Bay Company from their fort at its mouth to the interior.
- Frederick de Houtman and Jans van Edel discover the Houtman Abrolhos islands.[1]
Medicine- Dermod O'Meara's text on genetic disorders, De Moribus: Pathologia Haereditaria Generalis is published in Dublin,[2] the first medical text published in Ireland.
Metallurgy- Sir Basil Brooke produces steel using a reverbatory furnace in Coalbrookdale, England.
Births- probable date – Daniel Whistler, English physician (died 1684)
Deaths- May 21 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist and embryologist (born 1537)
- September – Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker, credited with inventing the telescope in 1608 (born c. 1570)
- Olivier de Serres, French soil scientist (born 1539)
- Caterina Vitale, Maltese chemist (born 1566)
References1. ^{{cite book|first=Isaac|last=Taylor|title=Names and Their Histories: a Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature|page=149|publisher=Rivingtons|location=London|year=1898}} 2. ^{{cite book|editor=Moody, T. W.|title=A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2|display-editors=etal}}
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