1607 in science

The year 1607 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy

Johannes Kepler records the appearance and motion of a comet, later to be known as Comet Halley.

Medicine

Giovanni Antonio Magini defends the use of astrology in medicine in his De astrologica ratione (published in Venice).

Technology

A thermometer is invented by Galileo.
Howitzers are invented, by a Frenchman.

Zoology

Edward Topsell's bestiary The Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts is published in London by William Jaggard.

Births
Deaths

6 January – Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician (born 1545)
28 June – Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (born 1543)
22 August – Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (born 1572)
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