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<h2 id="astronomy">Astronomy</h2> <ul><li>9 October – The <a href="/facts/Supernova/Pfo2J23l">supernova</a> which becomes known as <a href="/facts/Kepler%27s_Supernova/MT9kRF4s">Kepler's Supernova</a> (SN 1604) is first observed from northern Italy. From 17 October, <a href="/facts/Johannes_Kepler/wk6GTN3C">Johannes Kepler</a> begins a year's observation of it from <a href="/facts/Prague/txpRNTUE">Prague</a>. As of 2006<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1604_in_science&action=edit">[update]</a>, this is the last supernova to be observed in the <a href="/facts/Milky_Way/ulF6lccN">Milky Way</a>, and the last visible by the naked eye until <a href="/facts/1987_in_science/l5t26wzf">1987</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="exploration">Exploration</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/France/CxIeIKM3">France</a> begins settlement in <a href="/facts/French_Guiana/aFSETEKm">French Guiana</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Russia/jfkCwyxn">Russian</a> city of <a href="/facts/Tomsk/qyPfDoQQ">Tomsk</a> founded in <a href="/facts/Siberia/oaCoPEjF">Siberia</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="medicine">Medicine</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Johannes_Kepler/wk6GTN3C">Johannes Kepler</a> describes how the <a href="/facts/Human_eye/a24ua4fy">eye</a> focuses <a href="/facts/Light/jeofpMn4">light</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Hieronymus_Fabricius/q6B1A6GD">Hieronymus Fabricius</a>'s <i>De formato foetu</i> (On fetus development), an embryology textbook.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Joseph_du_Chesne/b40CC6R3">Joseph du Chesne</a>'s <i>Ad veritatem hermeticae medicinae ex Hippocratis veterumque decretis ac therapeusi</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="physics">Physics</h2> <ul><li>Johannes Kepler specifies the law of <a href="/facts/Rectilinear_propagation/UC3WP6Pq">rectilinear propagation</a> for <a href="/facts/Light/jeofpMn4">light</a> waves.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Luca_Valerio/Mel53pa0">Luca Valerio</a> publishes his treatise on determining the <a href="/facts/Center_of_gravity/n4Lr9GAz">center of gravity</a> of solids, <i>De centro gravitatis solidorum libri tres</i>, in <a href="/facts/Rome/bh1Ttx3T">Rome</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <ul><li>1 October – The <a href="/facts/Wollaton_Wagonway/k3DItjEL">Wollaton Wagonway</a>, from <a href="/facts/Strelley,_Nottingham/aa9HBVRb">Strelley, Nottingham</a>, to <a href="/facts/Wollaton/LtL5hQwn">Wollaton</a> in <a href="/facts/England/U9mE5bGL">England</a>, is known to have been completed by this date, being the world's first recorded overland <a href="/facts/Wagonway/KWF0o66h">wagonway</a>. It runs for approximately two miles (5 km) and is built by <a href="/facts/Huntingdon_Beaumont/KcS52NTn">Huntingdon Beaumont</a> for <a href="/facts/Coal/83kV3qxg">coal</a> haulage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>10 March – <a href="/facts/Johann_Rudolf_Glauber/v1RbFEom">Johann Rudolf Glauber</a>, <a href="/facts/Germany/paluuWBX">German</a>-born <a href="/facts/Chemical_engineer/AGPxgpMN">chemical engineer</a> (died <a href="/facts/1670_in_science/yRVMQ5fJ">1670</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>5 June – <a href="/facts/Thomas_Muffet/XHmzYT6p">Thomas Muffet</a>, <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> <a href="/facts/Naturalist/pSlAvbTX">naturalist</a> and <a href="/facts/Physician/qJ3woFvG">physician</a> (born <a href="/facts/1553_in_science/YWsYRLjM">1553</a>)</li> <li>before August – <a href="/facts/William_Clowes_(surgeon)/w8Gszb9M">William Clowes</a>, <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> <a href="/facts/Surgeon/Hm0R9t6n">surgeon</a> (born c. <a href="/facts/1543_in_science/q304DXQ6">1543</a>)</li> <li><i>approximate date</i> – <a href="/facts/Juan_Fern%C3%A1ndez_(explorer)/1B4rfgtr">Juan Fernández</a>, <a href="/facts/Spanish_people/dbRtgpzl">Spanish</a> <a href="/facts/Explorer/wXUhG45B">explorer</a> (born c. <a href="/facts/1536_in_science/xCpRYFyz">1536</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"SN 1604, Kepler's Supernova". Archived from the original on 31 January 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100131163501/http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1604.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100131163501/http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1604.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant". NASA. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121101082248/http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~4~4~12406~114566%3AThree-Great-Eyes-on-Kepler-s-Supern" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20121101082248/http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~4~4~12406~114566%3AThree-Great-Eyes-on-Kepler-s-Supern</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Tomsk Region". Kommersant. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110606082724/http://www.kommersant.com/t-72/r_5/n_416/Tomsk_Region/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110606082724/http://www.kommersant.com/t-72/r_5/n_416/Tomsk_Region/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Astronomiae Pars Optica. Manuscript presented to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1 January. <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Kepler#Astronomiae_Pars_Optica" target="_blank">/wiki/Johannes_Kepler#Astronomiae_Pars_Optica</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Hieronymus Fabricius (1624). De formato foetu, liber (in Latin). Jacobus De Zetter. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uIVEAAAAcAAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=uIVEAAAAcAAJ</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Joseph Du Chesne (1605). Ad Veritatem Hermeticae Medicinae ex Hippocratis veterumque decretis ac Therapeusi (in Latin). Nebenius. <a href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_z2ZEYRI5qV0C" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_z2ZEYRI5qV0C</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Astronomiae Pars Optica. Manuscript presented to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1 January. <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Kepler#Astronomiae_Pars_Optica" target="_blank">/wiki/Johannes_Kepler#Astronomiae_Pars_Optica</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Smith, Richard S. (1960). "England's first rails: a reconsideration". Renaissance & Modern Studies. 4: 119–134. <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>New, John (2004). "400 years of English railways: Huntingdon Beaumont and the early years". BackTrack. 18: 660–5. <a href="/wiki/BackTrack_(magazine)" target="_blank">/wiki/BackTrack_(magazine)</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Waggonway Research Circle (August 2005). "The Wollaton Wagonway of 1604: the World's first overland railway" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120218183309/http://www.waggonways.fsnet.co.uk/woll_wag_leaflet_a4.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120218183309/http://www.waggonways.fsnet.co.uk/woll_wag_leaflet_a4.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"The Galileo Project". galileo.rice.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2018. <a href="http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/glauber.html" target="_blank">http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/glauber.html</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>