1608 in science

<h2 id="technology">Technology</h2>
<ul><li>October 2 – <a href="/facts/Hans_Lippershey/L9E7c5c2">Hans Lippershey</a> demonstrates the first known <a href="/facts/Telescope/BDwYahhR">telescope</a> to the government of the <a href="/facts/Dutch_Republic/PlxBXbKF">Dutch Republic</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li>
<li>The flintlock <a href="/facts/Muzzleloader/RpJPVv78">muzzleloader</a> is invented; unlike most weapon systems which only lasted a few decades, the flintlock has a long-term impact.</li>
<li>The manufacture of <a href="/facts/Alum/ULAn0XRB">alum</a> is invented and successfully practised in England, under the patronage of <a href="/facts/James_I_of_England/mcmPE59x">King James</a>, by Lord Sheffield.</li></ul>
<h2 id="zoology">Zoology</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Edward_Topsell/Hxg8NSKy">Edward Topsell</a>'s <a href="/facts/Bestiary/Injq5IXV">bestiary</a> <i>The Historie of Serpents</i> is published in London by <a href="/facts/William_Jaggard/QvPIYj56">William Jaggard</a>.</li></ul>
<h2 id="births">Births</h2>
<ul><li>January 28 – <a href="/facts/Giovanni_Alfonso_Borelli/0TY5QTtu">Giovanni Alfonso Borelli</a>, Italian scientist (died <a href="/facts/1679_in_science/M4xWv8LS">1679</a>)</li>
<li>August 4 – <a href="/facts/John_Tradescant_the_younger/GTDJ3bxm">John Tradescant the younger</a>, English botanist (died <a href="/facts/1662_in_science/dc8efAmL">1662</a>)</li>
<li>October 15 – <a href="/facts/Evangelista_Torricelli/x4Lzw0PK">Evangelista Torricelli</a>, Italian physicist and mathematician (died <a href="/facts/1647_in_science/seGaPbxD">1647</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li></ul>
<h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2>
<ul><li>December – <a href="/facts/Oswald_Croll/zfncgkLt">Oswald Croll</a>, German chemist and physician (born c1560)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Burke, James (1978). Connections. London: Macmillan. p. 134. ISBN 0-333-24827-9. <a href="0-333-24827-9" target="_blank">0-333-24827-9</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Evangelista Torricelli – Italian physicist and mathematician". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 4 April 2018. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evangelista-Torricelli" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evangelista-Torricelli</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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