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词条 1619 in science
释义

  1. Astronomy

  2. Biochemistry

  3. Exploration

  4. Medicine

  5. Metallurgy

  6. Births

  7. Deaths

  8. References

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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)

References

1. ^{{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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