1595 in science

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 – A Spanish expedition led by Álvaro 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

• 1595–1596 – 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 [sv].^[5]

Technology

• Hull of first fluyt laid in the Dutch Republic.^[6]

Births

• June 13 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician (died 1667).
• Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch drainage engineer (died 1677).

Deaths

• August 24 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born 1546).
• November 12 – Sir John Hawkins, English navigator (born 1532) (at sea).

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