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See also: 1603 in science, other events of 1604, 1605 in science, and the list of years in science.

1 Astronomy

• Supernova 1604 is observed. As of 2003, this was the last supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.

2 Exploration

• Luis Vaez de Torres is the first European to sail through the Torres Strait.
• France begins settling French Guiana.
• RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Withn city of TomskTomsk (2002 pop. 483,800), a city in the southwest of Siberian Federal District, i. W Siberia, Russia, seat of the Tomsk Oblast. In 1604 the Russian tsar Boris Godunov ordered Cossack leader Gavril Pisemsky and boyar son Tyrkov to found a fort on the Tom founded, in SiberiaSiberia ( Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir Sibir' is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan, constituting all of northern Asia, and extending eastward from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and southward from the Arctic Oc.

3 Medicine

• Johannes KeplerThis article is about Johannes Kepler the astronomer. For the planned planet-finding space telescope, see Kepler Space Mission. Johannes Kepler ( December 27, 1571 November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German astronomer, mat describes how the eyeThis article refers to the sight organ. See Eye (disambiguation) for other usages. human eye. Note that not all eyes have the same anatomy as a human eye. An eye is an organ that detects light. Different kinds of light-sensitive organ are found in a varie focuses lightLight is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye, or in a more general sense, any electromagnetic radiation in the range from infrared to ultraviolet. The three basic dimensions of light (and of all electromagnetic radiation.

4 Physics

• Kepler specifies the laws of the rectilinear propagation of the light.

5 Births

6 Deaths