1591 in science

none thumb | right | alt=Black and white painted portrait of Prospero Alpini’s bust, he is bearded with a white collar and black shirt | Prospero Alpini, author of De Medicina Egyptiorum 1591 science 1591 The year 1591 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. Mathematics François Viète publishes In Artem Analyticien Isagoge, introducing the new algebra with innovative use of letters as parameters in equations.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 57 Giordano Bruno publishes la De triplici minimo et mensura, De monade numero et figura and la De innumerabilibus, immenso, et infigurabili in Francfort. Technology The Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, is completed. Publications Prospero Alpini publishes De Medicina Egyptiorum in Venice, including accounts of coffee, bananas and the baobab.Stannard Jerry Alpini, Prospero Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1 124–125 Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1970 0-684-10114-9 Publication of the first of the Conimbricenses commentaries on Aristotle by the Jesuits of the University of Coimbra, Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis Jesu in octo libros physicorum Aristotelis Stagyritæ, on Aristotle's Physics. Births February 21 – Gérard Desargues, French geometer (died 1661) Deaths July 2 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian scientist and musician (born 1520) References Category:1591 Category:16th century in science Category:1590s in science