1607 in science
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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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Medicine
- Giovanni Antonio Magini defends the use of astrology in medicine in his De astrologica ratione (published in Venice).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Technology
- Howitzers are invented, by a Frenchman.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Zoology
- Edward Topsell's bestiary The Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts is published in London by William Jaggard.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Births
- between 31 October and 6 December – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
Deaths
- 6 January – Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician (born 1545)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 28 June – Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (born 1543)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 22 August – Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (born 1572)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Georg Bartisch, German physician and ophthalmologist (born 1535)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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