1587 in science

none August 2026 1587 science 1587 The year 1587 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. Exploration c. March – An edition of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera's De Orbe Novo ("On the New World", 1530) edited by Richard Hakluyt is published in Paris with a new map of the Americas. Mathematics Franciscus Patricius publishes Della nuova geometria in Ferrara. Births January 5 – Xu Xiake, Chinese explorer and geographer (died 1641)Brown Kerry Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography December 27, 2017 Berkshire Publishing Group 9781614729167 1043 https://books.google.com/books?id=2rvBDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA1043&dq=Xu+Xiake+5+january+1587&hl=en&source=newbks_fb&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false January 8 – Johannes Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (died 1616)Drake Stillman Stillman Drake Galileo at Work His Scientific Biography 2003 Dover Publications 9780486495422 447 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Galileo_at_Work/OwOlRPbrZeQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Johannes+Fabricius+8+january+1587&pg=PA447&printsec=frontcover October 22 – Joachim Jungius, German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science (died 1657)Bonner Patrick Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology February 2011 Springer Netherlands 9789400700376 171 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Change_and_Continuity_in_Early_Modern_Co/xPq0Bv5Kz4EC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Joachim+Jungius+22+october&pg=PA171&printsec=frontcover Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist (died 1666)Song Yingxing (1587 – c. 1666) The China Encyclopedia https://www.berkshirepublishing.com/ecph-china/2018/01/13/song-yingxing-1587-c-1666/ August 19, 2026 January 13, 2018 Deaths January 28 – Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Spanish physician and botanist (born 1514)Biographical Notes Upon Botanists Volume 2 1965 G. K. Hall 164 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Biographical_Notes_Upon_Botanists/uRglAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Francisco+Hern%C3%A1ndez+de+Toledo+1514+28+january+1587&dq=Francisco+Hern%C3%A1ndez+de+Toledo+1514+28+january+1587&printsec=frontcover Possible date – Humphrey Baker, English arithmetician References Category:16th century in science Category:1580s in science