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The year 1593 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany
[edit]- Founding of the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier by Pierre Richer de Belleval.
- Founding of the Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg.
- Carolus Clusius becomes Professor of Botany at Leiden University, taking charge of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden.
Geography
[edit]- John Norden begins publication of his Speculum Britanniae.[1][2]
Mathematics
[edit]- François Viète publishes Viète's formula, the first in European mathematics to represent an infinite process.[3][4]
Medicine
[edit]- First printed Arabic language edition of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā's The Canon of Medicine.
Births
[edit]Deaths
[edit]- June 25 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist (born 1541)
- Li Shizhen, Chinese pharmacologist (born 1518).
References
[edit]- ^ Mendyk, Stan G. (1989). Speculum Britanniae: regional study, antiquarianism, and science in Britain to 1700. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5744-6.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 163–165. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Beckmann, Petr (1971). A History of π (2nd ed.). Boulder, CO: Golem Press. pp. 94–95. ISBN 978-0-88029-418-8. MR 0449960.
- ^ Maor, Eli (2011). Trigonometric Delights. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 50, 140. ISBN 978-1-4008-4282-7.