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The year 1619 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Discoveries
- Lactose is discovered by Fabriccio Bartoletti; the word lactose comes from the Latin word lac which means "milk".
- In North America, the Churchill River is discovered by Danish explorer Jens Munk, and it will be used for over 100 years as a trading route of the Hudson's Bay Company from their fort at its mouth to the interior.
- Frederick de Houtman and Jans van Edel discover the Houtman Abrolhos islands.[1]
Astronomy
- Publication of Johannes Kepler's third law of planetary motion.
- Publication of the Jesuit Giuseppe Biancani's Sphaera mundi, seu cosmographia demonstrativa, ac facili methodo tradita in Bologna.
Births
- probable date - Daniel Whistler, English physician (d. 1684)
Deaths
- May 21 - Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist and embryologist (b. 1537)
- September - Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker, credited with inventing the telescope in 1608 (b. c.1570)
- Olivier de Serres, French soil scientist (b. 1539)
References
- ^ Taylor, Isaac (1898). Names and Their Histories: a Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature. London: Rivingtons. p. 149.
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