1593 in science
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The year 1593 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany
- Founding of the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier by Pierre Richer de Belleval.
- Founding of the Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg.
- Carolus Clusius becomes Professor of Botany at Leiden University, taking charge of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden.
Geography
- John Norden begins publication of his Speculum Britanniae.
Mathematics
- François Viète publishes Viète's formula, the first in European mathematics to represent an infinite process.
Medicine
- First printed Arabic language edition of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā's The Canon of Medicine.
Births
Deaths
- June 25 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist (born 1541)
- Li Shizhen, Chinese pharmacologist (born 1518).