1594 in science
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The year 1594 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany
- Tulip bulbs planted by Carolus Clusius in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden, Holland, first flower.
Exploration
- First voyage of Willem Barents in the Arctic Ocean in search of the North-east passage.
- John Davis publishes a treatise on navigation, The Seamans Secrets, and invents a version of the backstaff.
- Robert Hues publishes a practical treatise on the use of terrestrial and celestial globes in navigation, Tractatus de globis et eorum usu.
Medicine
- Anatomical theatre completed at the University of Padua.
Technology
- Bevis Bulmer sets up a system at Blackfriars, London, for pumping a public water supply.[1]
Publications
- Johannes Huser of Waldkirch completes the publication of Paracelsus's works.
- Baldo Angelo Abati : Opus discussarum concertationum praeclarum, de rebus, verbis, et sententiis controversis, ex omnibus fere scriptoribus, libri XV[2] published at Pesaro.
Births
Deaths
- June 7 â Rodrigo Lopez (b. c. 1517), physician to Elizabeth I of England.
- Cristóbal Acosta (b. c. 1525), physician.