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1595 science
1595
The year 1595 in science and technology involved some significant events, some of which are listed here.
Chemistry
Andreas Libavius publishes Opera omnia medico-chymica.1595 Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon and Schuster 1991 0-671-74919-6 265 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun
Exploration
July 21 – A Spanish expedition led by Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira makes the first European landing in Polynesia, on the Marquesas Islands.
Sir Walter Raleigh explores Guyana and eastern Venezuela.His book The Discovery of Guiana (1596) makes exaggerated claims for his discoveries.
Mathematics
Bartholomaeus Pitiscus publishes Trigonometria: sive de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis et perspicuus in Heidelberg, introducing the term trigonometry to Western European languages.Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries.
Medicine
1595–1596 – Scipione (Girolamo) Mercurio publishes it La commare o riccoglitrice ("The midwife"), the first text to advocate a Caesarean section on the living in cases of a contracted long pelvis.Jeremy M. Norman Morton's Medical Bibliography: An Annotated Check-List of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine (Garrison and Morton) 5th Aldershot Scolar 1991 0-85967-897-0
A first chair of medicine is created at Uppsala in Sweden. It will remain vacant until the appointment, in 1613, of Johannes Chesnecopherus sv.Short history of Uppsala University and the origins of MCB https://www.mcb.uu.se/about/history/ Uppsala University 3 October 2020
Technology
Hull of first fluyt laid in the Dutch Republic.James Burke (science historian) James Burke Connections https://archive.org/details/connections00burk_351 limited London Macmillan 1978 0-333-24827-9 188
Births
June 13 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician (died 1667).
Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch drainage engineer (died 1677).
Deaths
August 24 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born 1546).
November 12 – Sir John Hawkins, English navigator (born 1532) (at sea).
References
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