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).

References

1. Grun, Bernard (1991). "1595". The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 265. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
2. His book The Discovery of Guiana (1596) makes exaggerated claims for his discoveries.
3. Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries.
4. Norman, Jeremy M. (1991). Morton's Medical Bibliography: An Annotated Check-List of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine (Garrison and Morton) (5th ed.). Aldershot: Scolar. ISBN 0-85967-897-0.
5. "Short history of Uppsala University and the origins of MCB". Uppsala University. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
6. Burke, James (1978). Connections. London: Macmillan. p. 188. ISBN 0-333-24827-9.