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The year 1609 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

July 26 – English scientist Thomas Harriot becomes the first to draw an astronomical object after viewing it through a telescope: he draws a map of the Moon, preceding Galileo by several months.^[1]^[2]
Johannes Kepler publishes Astronomia nova, containing his first two laws of planetary motion.

Biology

Charles Butler publishes The Feminine Monarchie, or, A Treatise Concerning Bees.

Exploration

April 4 – Henry Hudson sets out from Amsterdam in the Halve Maen.^[3]
- August 28 – Hudson finds Delaware Bay.
- September 11–12 – Hudson sails into Upper New York Bay^[4] and begins a journey up the Hudson River.^[5]

Medicine

Louise Bourgeois Boursier publishes Diverse Observations on Sterility; Loss of the Ovum after Fecundation, Fecundity and Childbirth; Diseases of Women and of Newborn Infants in Paris, the first book on obstetrics written by a woman.^[6]
Jacques Guillemeau publishes De l'heureux accouchement des femmes in which he describes a method of assisted breech delivery.

Technology

Cornelius Drebbel invents the thermostat.

Births

June 29 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (died 1680)
October 8 – John Clarke, English physician (died 1676)

Deaths

March 26 – John Dee, English alchemist, astrologer and mathematician (born 1527)^[7]
April 4 – Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist (born 1525)
August 4 - Joseph Duchesne, French physician and alchemist (born c.1544).^[8]
August 16 : André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (born 1558).^[9]
December – Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist (born c. 1563)

References

^ McGourty, Christine (2009-01-14). "'English Galileo' maps on display". BBC News. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
^ "Thomas Harriot's Moon Drawings". The Galileo Project. 1995. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
^ Hunter, Douglas (2009). Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World. London: Bloomsbury Press. p. 11. ISBN 1-59691-680-X.
^ Nevius, Michelle; James (2008-09-08). "New York's many 9/11 anniversaries: the Staten Island Peace Conference". Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
^ Juet, Robert (1625). "Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage". In Purchas, Samuel (ed.). Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes. Vol. 4.
^ Anzovin, Steven (2000). Famous First Facts. H. W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0-8242-0958-3.
^ Roberts, R. Julian (2004). "Dee, John (1527–1609)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7418. Retrieved 2011-04-18. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ "Joseph Du Chesne (Sieur de la Violette, 1544-1609)". data.bnf.fr. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
^ Pierre Bayle (1711). Dictionnaire historique et critique. P. Brunel. p. 69.

[1] McGourty, Christine (2009-01-14). "'English Galileo' maps on display". BBC News. Retrieved 2012-07-04.

[2] "Thomas Harriot's Moon Drawings". The Galileo Project. 1995. Retrieved 2012-07-04.

[3] Hunter, Douglas (2009). Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World. London: Bloomsbury Press. p. 11. ISBN 1-59691-680-X.

[4] Nevius, Michelle; James (2008-09-08). "New York's many 9/11 anniversaries: the Staten Island Peace Conference". Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City. Retrieved 2011-10-25.

[5] Juet, Robert (1625). "Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage". In Purchas, Samuel (ed.). Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes. Vol. 4.

[6] Anzovin, Steven (2000). Famous First Facts. H. W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0-8242-0958-3.

[7] Roberts, R. Julian (2004). "Dee, John (1527–1609)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7418. Retrieved 2011-04-18. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

[8] "Joseph Du Chesne (Sieur de la Violette, 1544-1609)". data.bnf.fr. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 23 December 2020.

[Bayle1711-9] Pierre Bayle (1711). Dictionnaire historique et critique. P. Brunel. p. 69.

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-* August 4 - [[Joseph Duchesne]], [[French people|French]] physician and alchemist (born c.[[1544 in science|1544]])
+* August 4 - [[Joseph Duchesne]], [[French people|French]] physician and alchemist (born c.[[1544 in science|1544]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=Joseph Du Chesne (Sieur de la Violette, 1544-1609) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12396854/joseph_du_chesne/ |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref>
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 * December – [[Oswald Croll]], [[German people|German]] [[Iatrochemistry|iatrochemist]] (born c. [[1563 in science|1563]])
-* [[André du Laurens]], French physician and [[gerontologist]] (born [[1558 in science|1558]])
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