1607 in science
# 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

* 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

* between 31 October and 6 December – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)

## 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)
* Georg Bartisch, German physician and ophthalmologist (born 1535)
