1595 in science

Chemistry

• Andreas Libavius publishes Opera omnia medico-chymica.

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.

Mathematics

• Bartholomaeus Pitiscus publishes Trigonometria: sive de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis et perspicuus in Heidelberg, introducing the term trigonometry to Western European languages.

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.
• A first chair of medicine is created at Uppsala in Sweden. It will remain vacant until the appointment, in 1613, of .

Technology

• Hull of first fluyt laid in the Dutch Republic.

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

References

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2. His book ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2272 The Discovery of Guiana]'' (1596) makes exaggerated claims for his discoveries.
3. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MTXdplfiz-cC&pg=PA153&vq=pitiscus&sig=iUWyiMp6dVhUH74BC8LFt9id1JE Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries.]
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