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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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-'''The year 1609 CE in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] consisted of many events, some of which are listed below.
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+The year '''1609 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.
-''See also'': [[1608 in science]], [[1609|other events of 1609]], [[1610 in science]], and the [[list of years in science]].
+[[Image:Astronomia Nova.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Title Page of Kepler's ''Astronomia nova'']]
 ==Astronomy==
+* July 26 – [[English people|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7827732.stm|first=Christine|last=McGourty|title='English Galileo' maps on display|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=2009-01-14|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/harriot_moon.html|work=The Galileo Project|title=Thomas Harriot's Moon Drawings|year=1995|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref>
-* [[Johannes Kepler]] publishes his first two laws of planetary motion
+* [[Johannes Kepler]] publishes ''[[Astronomia nova]]'', containing his first two [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|laws of planetary motion]].
+==Biology==
+* [[Charles Butler (beekeeper)|Charles Butler]] publishes ''The Feminine Monarchie, or, A Treatise Concerning Bees''.
+==Exploration==
+* April 4 – [[Henry Hudson]] sets out from [[Amsterdam]] in the ''[[Halve Maen]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hunter|first=Douglas|year=2009|title=Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury Press|isbn=1-59691-680-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/halfmoonhenryhud00hunt/page/11 11]|url=https://archive.org/details/halfmoonhenryhud00hunt/page/11}}</ref>
+** August 28 – Hudson finds [[Delaware Bay]].
+** September 11–12 – Hudson sails into [[Upper New York Bay]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.insidetheapple.net/2008/09/new-yorks-many-911-anniversaries-staten.html|last=Nevius|first=Michelle|author2=James|title=New York's many 9/11 anniversaries: the Staten Island Peace Conference|work=Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City|date=2008-09-08|accessdate=2011-10-25}}</ref> and begins a journey up the [[Hudson River]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Juet|first=Robert|chapter=Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage|year=1625|title=Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes|volume=4|editor=Purchas, Samuel|editor-link=Samuel Purchas}}</ref>
+==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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Anzovin|first=Steven|title=Famous First Facts|year=2000|publisher=H. W. Wilson Co|isbn=0-8242-0958-3|url=https://archive.org/details/famousfirstfacts00anzo}}</ref>
+* [[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 (Baptist minister)|John Clarke]], English physician (died [[1676 in science|1676]])
 ==Deaths==
+* March 26 – [[John Dee (mathematician)|John Dee]], [[English people|English]] [[Alchemy|alchemist]], [[astrologer]] and [[mathematician]] (born [[1527 in science|1527]])<ref>{{cite web|first=R. Julian|last=Roberts|title=Dee, John (1527–1609)|work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7418|accessdate=2011-04-18|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/7418}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>
-* [[Oswald Croll]], German chemist and physician (born c[[1580]])
+* April 4 – [[Carolus Clusius]], [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[botanist]] (born [[1525 in science|1525]])
-* [[Charles de L'Ecluse]], (or Clusius), French botanist who published one of the earliest known books on [[Spain|Spanish]] flora (born [[1525]])
+* 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>
+* August 16 : [[André du Laurens]], French physician and [[gerontologist]] (born [[1558 in science|1558]]).<ref name="Bayle1711">{{cite book|author=Pierre Bayle|title=Dictionnaire historique et critique|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4FpDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA69|year=1711|publisher=P. Brunel|pages=69}}</ref>
+* December – [[Oswald Croll]], [[German people|German]] [[Iatrochemistry|iatrochemist]] (born c. [[1563 in science|1563]])
+==References==
+{{Reflist}}
-[[Category:1609|Science]]
+[[Category:1609 in science| ]]
+[[Category:17th century in science]]
 [[Category:1600s in science]]