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The year 1619 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

thumb|240px|right| Publication of [[Johannes Kepler's third law of planetary motion in his Harmonices Mundi. He also recognises the duality of convex polyhedra]]

  • Publication of Johannes Kepler's third law of planetary motion in his Harmonices Mundi. He also recognises the duality of convex polyhedra.
  • Publication of the Jesuit Giuseppe Biancani's Sphaera mundi, seu cosmographia demonstrativa, ac facili methodo tradita in Bologna.

Biochemistry

  • Lactose is discovered by Fabriccio Bartoletti; the word lactose comes from the Latin word lac which means "milk".

Exploration

  • 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.

Medicine

  • Dermod O'Meara's text on genetic disorders, De Moribus: Pathologia Haereditaria Generalis is published in Dublin, the first medical text published in Ireland.

Metallurgy

  • Sir Basil Brooke produces steel using a reverbatory furnace in Coalbrookdale, England.

Births

  • probable date – Daniel Whistler, English physician (died 1684)

Deaths

  • May 21 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist and embryologist (born 1537)
  • September – Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker, credited with inventing the telescope in 1608 (born c. 1570)
  • Olivier de Serres, French soil scientist (born 1539)
  • Caterina Vitale, Maltese chemist (born 1566)

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