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The year 1606 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Exploration

• Pedro Fernández de Quirós discovers the islands which he names Austrialia del Espiritu Santo (now Vanuatu).
• Luis Váez de Torres is the first European to sail through the Torres Strait.

Physics

• At about this time, Galileo Galilei invented a thermometer based on the expansion of gas.

Births

• Edmund Castell - Linguist (died 1685)

Deaths

• Girolamo Mercuriale - Italian physician and historian