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1627 in science
The year
1627 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Johannes Kepler
's
Rudolphine Tables
are published.
Exploration
January â The
Dutch
ship
't Gulden Zeepaert
, skippered by
François Thijssen
, sails along the south coast of
Australia
.
Medicine
Adriaan van den Spiegel
's
' is published posthumously in
Venice
with illustrations by Giulio Casserio.
Gaspare Aselli
's ' is published posthumously in
Milan
.
Publications
Francis Bacon
's
, or A Natural History
and
New Atlantis
are published posthumously.
Births
January 25 âÂÂ
Robert Boyle
,
Anglo-Irish
chemist
(died
1691
)
November 29 âÂÂ
John Ray
,
English
naturalist
(died
1705
)
Deaths
February 22 âÂÂ
Olivier van Noort
Dutch
circumnavigator
(born
1558
)
July 20 âÂÂ
Guðbrandur ÃÂorláksson
,
Iceland
ic
mathematician
and
cartographer
(born
1541
)
October 21 âÂÂ
Frederick de Houtman
, Dutch explorer (born
1571
)
References