1627 in science

The year 1627 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

 * Johannes Kepler's Rudolphine Tables are published.

Exploration

 * January – The Dutch ship 't Gulden Zeepaert, skippered by François Thijssen, sails along the south coast of Australia.

Medicine

 * Adriaan van den Spiegel's De humani corporis fabrica is published posthumously in Venice with illustrations by Giulio Casserio.
 * Gaspare Aselli's De lactibus sive lacteis venis is published posthumously in Milan.

Publications

 * Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, or A Natural History and New Atlantis are published posthumously.

Births

 * January 25 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist (died 1691)
 * November 29 – John Ray, English naturalist (died 1705)

Deaths

 * February 22 – Olivier van Noort Dutch circumnavigator (born 1558)
 * July 20 – Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Icelandic mathematician and cartographer (born 1541)
 * October 21 – Frederick de Houtman, Dutch explorer (born 1571)