Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The year 1604 CE in science and technology consisted of many events, some of which are listed below. See also: 1603 in science, other events of 1604, 1605 in science, and the list of years in science. Table of contents 1 Astronomy 2 Exploration 3 Medicine 4 Physics 5 Births 6 Deaths Astronomy Supernova 1604 is observed. As of 2003, this was the last supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. Exploration Luis Vaez de Torres is the first European to sail through the Torres Strait. France begins settling French Guiana. Russian city of Tomsk founded, in Siberia. Medicine Johannes Kepler describes how the eye focuses light. Physics Kepler specifies the laws of the rectilinear propagation of the light. Births Deaths This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.