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The year 1592 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
[edit]- November–December – Appearance of the Guest stars observed by Korean astronomers.
Biology
[edit]- Prospero Alpini publishes De Plantis Aegypti liber in Venice.
Geography
[edit]- August 9 – 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 Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī dhikr al-amṣār wa-al-aqṭār wa-al-buldān wa-al-juzur wa-al-madā’ in wa-al-āfāq in Rome.
Mathematics
[edit]- March 14 – Ultimate 'Pi Day': the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar.
- Giovanni Antonio Magini publishes De Planis Triangulis, describing use of the quadrant in surveying and astronomy, and Tabula tetragonica.
Physics
[edit]- Galileo invents the thermometer.[1]
Technology
[edit]- March – Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin perfects the armed turtle ship.
Institutions
[edit]- Trinity College Dublin is established.
Births
[edit]- April 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor of the first mechanical calculator (died 1635)
Deaths
[edit]- May – 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)
References
[edit]- ^ "Thermometer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ Lançon, Pierre (2012). "Du bistouri à l'action politique : le destin mouvementé du chirurgien ruthénois Urbain Hémard (vers 1548-1592)" (PDF). Actes de la Société française d'histoire de l'art dentaire (in French). 17: 17–23. Retrieved 4 March 2021.