1595 in science
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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.[1]
Exploration
- July 21 â A Spanish expedition led by Ãlvaro de Mendaña de Neira makes the first European landing in Polynesia, on the Marquesas Islands.
- Sir Walter Raleigh explores Guyana and eastern Venezuela.[2]
Mathematics
- Bartholomaeus Pitiscus publishes Trigonometria: sive de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis et perspicuus in Heidelberg, introducing the term trigonometry to Western European languages.[3]
Medicine
- 1595â1596 â Scipione (Girolamo) Mercurio publishes La commare o riccoglitrice ("The midwife"), the first text to advocate a Caesarean section on the living in cases of a contracted long pelvis.[4]
- A first chair of medicine is created at Uppsala in Sweden. It will remain vacant until the appointment, in 1613, of Johannes Chesnecopherus.[5]
Technology
- Hull of first fluyt laid in the Dutch Republic.[6]
Births
- June 13 â Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician (died 1667).
- Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch drainage engineer (died 1677).
Deaths
- August 24 â Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born 1546).
- November 12 â Sir John Hawkins, English navigator (born 1532) (at sea).