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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.^[1]

Giovanni Antonio Magini defends the use of astrology in medicine in his De astrologica ratione (published in Venice).^[2]

Edward Topsell's bestiary The Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts is published in London by William Jaggard.^[4]

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

^ Stoyan, Ronald (2015). Atlas of Great Comets. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9781316195727.
^ Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (2014). Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation. BRILL. p. 141. ISBN 9789004254503.
^ Walsh, Robert (1828). The American Quarterly Review. Carey, Lea & Carey. p. 494.
^ "The familiar and the fantastic: The historie of foure-footed beastes by Edward Topsell, 1607". Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "The Galileo Project". galileo.rice.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "The Theater that was Rome - Biography". library.brown.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "Bartholomew Gosnold - English explorer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "Georg Bartisch (1535-1607)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 3 April 2018.