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1588 in science

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The year 1588 in science and technology, Armada year, included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

  • Tycho Brahe publishes De mundi aetheri recentioribus phaenomenis in Uraniborg.
  • Giovanni Paolo Gallucci publishes his star atlas Theatrum Mundi et Temporis (Theater of the world and time).

History of science

  • October 7 – The first biography of Nicolaus Copernicus (died 1543) is completed by Bernardino Baldi.

Mathematics

  • Pietro Cataldi discovers the sixth and seventh Mersenne primes by this year.
  • Giovanni Antonio Magini is chosen over Galileo to occupy the chair of mathematics at the University of Bologna after the death of Egnatio Danti.
  • Ferdinando I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, appoints Galileo to the professorship of mathematics at the University of Pisa.

Medicine

  • Joachim Camerarius the younger publishes Hortus medicus.
  • Thomas Muffet publishes Nosomantica Hippocratea.

Technology

  • Agostino Ramelli publishes Le diverse et artificiose Machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli, Dal Ponte Della Tresia Ingegniero del Christianissimo Re di Francia et di Pollonia in Paris.

Births

  • May 2 – Étienne Pascal, French mathematician (died 1651)
  • May 13 – Ole Worm, Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary (died 1655)
  • September 8 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (died 1648)
  • December 10 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch philosopher and scientist (died 1637)
  • Jean-Jacques Chifflet, French physician and antiquary (died 1660)
  • Jan Janssonius, Dutch cartographer (died 1664)
  • Cassiano dal Pozzo, Italian scholar and patron (died 1657)

Deaths

  • February 24 – Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist (born 1515)
  • March 1 – Jacques Daléchamps, French physician and botanist (born 1513)
  • March 10 – Theodor Zwinger the elder, Swiss philosopher, physician and encyclopedist (born 1533)
  • May 5 – Giorgio Biandrata, Italian court physician (born 1515)
  • October 2– Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and natural scientist (born 1509)
  • Leonardo Fioravanti, Bolognese physician (born 1517)
  • Jacques le Moyne, French scientific illustrator (born c. 1533)

References

References

  1. Hockey, Thomas. (2009). "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers". [[Springer Publishing]].
  2. Caldwell, Chris. "The largest known prime by year".
  3. Grun, Bernard. (1991). "The Timetables of History". Simon & Schuster.
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