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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.¹²
• 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 Bay⁴ 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).⁸
• August 16 – André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (born 1558).⁹
• December – Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist (born c. 1563)

References

1. McGourty, Christine (2009-01-14). "'English Galileo' maps on display". BBC News. Retrieved 2012-07-04. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7827732.stm ↩

2. "Thomas Harriot's Moon Drawings". The Galileo Project. 1995. Retrieved 2012-07-04. http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/harriot_moon.html ↩

3. Hunter, Douglas (2009). Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World. London: Bloomsbury Press. p. 11. ISBN 1-59691-680-X. 1-59691-680-X ↩

4. Nevius, Michelle; James (2008-09-08). "New York's many 9/11 anniversaries: the Staten Island Peace Conference". Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City. Retrieved 2011-10-25. http://blog.insidetheapple.net/2008/09/new-yorks-many-911-anniversaries-staten.html ↩

5. Juet, Robert (1625). "Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage". In Purchas, Samuel (ed.). Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes. Vol. 4. /wiki/Samuel_Purchas ↩

6. Anzovin, Steven (2000). Famous First Facts. H. W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0-8242-0958-3. 0-8242-0958-3 ↩

7. Roberts, R. Julian (2004). "Dee, John (1527–1609)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7418. Retrieved 2011-04-18. (subscription or UK public library membership required) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7418 ↩

8. "Joseph Du Chesne (Sieur de la Violette, 1544-1609)". data.bnf.fr. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 23 December 2020. https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12396854/joseph_du_chesne/ ↩

9. Pierre Bayle (1711). Dictionnaire historique et critique. P. Brunel. p. 69. https://books.google.com/books?id=4FpDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA69 ↩