1592 in science
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The year 1592 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- NovemberâDecember â Appearance of the Guest stars observed by Korean astronomers.
Biology
- Prospero Alpini publishes De Plantis Aegypti liber in Venice.
Geography
- August 9 â English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, probably discovers the Falkland Islands.
- An abridgement of Muhammad al-Idrisi's 12th-century geographical compilation is published as De geographia universali or KitÄb Nuzhat al-mushtÄq fÄ« dhikr al-amá¹£Är wa-al-aqá¹Är wa-al-buldÄn wa-al-juzur wa-al-madÄâ in wa-al-ÄfÄq in Rome.
Mathematics
- March 14 â Ultimate 'Pi Day': the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar.[citation needed]
- Giovanni Antonio Magini publishes De Planis Triangulis, describing use of the quadrant in surveying and astronomy, and Tabula tetragonica.
Physics
- Galileo invents the thermometer.[1]
Technology
- March â Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin perfects the armed turtle ship.
Institutions
- Trinity College Dublin is established.
Births
- April 22 â Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor of the first mechanical calculator (died 1635)
Deaths
- May â Sir Thomas Cavendish, English explorer (born 1560)
- October 14 - Urbain Hémard, French physician and dentist (born circa 1548)[2]
- Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer and scientist (born 1532)