1627 in science
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The year 1627 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Exploration
- January – The Dutch ship 't Gulden Zeepaert, skippered by François Thijssen, sails along the south coast of Australia.{{cite book|title=Australia on the Map, 1606-2006: Ages 11|date=2005|publisher=R.I.C. Publications|isbn=9781741263596|page=30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qj-pPBjZ_-gC&pg=PA30|language=en}}
Medicine
- Adriaan van den Spiegel's {{lang|la|De humani corporis fabrica}} is published posthumously in Venice with illustrations by Giulio Casserio.{{cite web|title=Historical Anatomies on the Web: Speigel & Casseri:: Author & Title Description|url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/casseri_bio.html|website=www.nlm.nih.gov|accessdate=3 April 2018}}
- Gaspare Aselli's {{lang|la|De lactibus sive lacteis venis}} is published posthumously in Milan.{{cite web|title=Gaspare Aselli - Italian physician|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gaspare-Aselli|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=3 April 2018|language=en}}
Publications
- Francis Bacon's {{lang|la|Sylva Sylvarum}}, or A Natural History and New Atlantis are published posthumously.{{cite web|title=Collection Highlight: Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum|url=http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/3613|website=rbscp.lib.rochester.edu|accessdate=3 April 2018|language=en}}
Births
- January 25 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist (died 1691){{cite web|title=January 25 : Anglo-Irish chemist Robert Boyle was born on this day in 1627|url=http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/resource/rdc00000125/on-this-day-jan-25-robert-boyle-was-born|website=www.rsc.org|accessdate=3 April 2018|language=en}}
- November 29 – John Ray, English naturalist (died 1705){{cite web|title=John Ray|url=http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/ray.html|website=www.ucmp.berkeley.edu|accessdate=3 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316193902/http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/ray.html|archive-date=16 March 2018|url-status=dead}}
Deaths
- February 22 – Olivier van Noort Dutch circumnavigator (born 1558){{cite book|last1=Long|first1=Isaac Le|title=Kabinet van Nederlandsche en Kleefsche oudheden|date=1793|publisher=by J.A. Crajenschot|page=416|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8PRWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA416|language=nl}}
- July 20 – Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Icelandic mathematician and cartographer (born 1541){{cite book|last1=Roiss|first1=Silvia|last2=Gil|first2=Carlos Fortea|title=En las vertientes de la traducción e interpretación del/al alemán|date=2011|publisher=Frank & Timme GmbH|isbn=9783865963260|page=185|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PQgWe8Ebp2sC&pg=PA185|language=es}}
- October 21 – Frederick de Houtman, Dutch explorer (born 1571){{cite web|last1=Lohuizen|first1=J. Van|title=Houtman, Frederik de (1571–1627)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/houtman-frederik-de-2201|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|accessdate=3 April 2018}}