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The year 1604 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Exploration 3 Medicine 4 Physics 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• Supernova 1604, also known as Kepler's Supernova, is observed. As of 2006^[update], this was the last supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.

[edit] Exploration

• France begins settling French Guiana.
• Russian city of Tomsk founded, in Siberia.

[edit] Medicine

• Johannes Kepler describes how the eye focuses light.

[edit] Physics

• Johannes Kepler specifies the law of rectilinear propagation for light waves.

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[edit] Deaths