See also: 1608 in science, other events of 1609, 1610 in science, and the list of years in science.
Astronomy Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion Births Deaths Oswald Croll, German chemist and physician (born c1650) Charles de L'Ecluse, (or Clusius), French botanist who published one of the earliest known books on Spanish flora (born 1525)