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1596 in science
Summary
The year
1596 in
science
and
technology
included some significant events.
List of years in science
(
table
)
…
1586
1587
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1589
1590
1591
1592
1593
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1595
1596
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1600
1601
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1606
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Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Science +...
Astronomy
edit
David Fabricius
discovers the first non-
supernova
variable star
,
Omicron Ceti
.
Johannes Kepler
's
Mysterium Cosmographicum
is the first published defense of the
Copernican
(
heliocentric
) system of planetary motion.
Botany
edit
Gaspard Bauhin
publishes
Pinax theatri botanici
, an early classified
flora
.
Mathematics
edit
Ludolph van Ceulen
computes
π
to twenty decimal places using inscribed and circumscribed polygons.
Medicine
edit
William Slingsby
discovers that water from the Tewitt Well mineral spring at
Harrogate
in
North Yorkshire
,
England
, possesses similar properties to that from
Spa, Belgium
.
Li Shizhen
's
Compendium of Materia Medica
(
Bencao Gangmu
) is published posthumously in an illustrated edition.
Earth sciences
edit
Abraham Ortelius
, in the last edition of his
Thesaurus geographicus
, considers the possibility of
continental drift
.
Exploration
edit
June 17 –
Willem Barents
makes the first documented discovery of
Spitsbergen
in the
Svalbard
archipelago
.
[1]
Technology
edit
John Harington
describes the "Ajax", a precursor to the modern
flush toilet
, in
The Metamorphosis of Ajax
.
Births
edit
March 31 –
René Descartes
(d.
1650
),
French
-born philosopher and mathematician.
approximate date
–
Peter Mundy
(d. c.
1667
),
English
traveller.
Deaths
edit
January 27 – Sir
Francis Drake
(b.
1540
), English explorer (at sea).
September 15 –
Leonhard Rauwolf
(b. either
1535
or 1540),
German
botanist and physician.
September –
Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser
(b. 1540?),
Frisian
navigator (at sea).
References
edit
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No Man's Land