1588 in science
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The year 1588 in science
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year, included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
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Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
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Spanish Armada
This article refers to the Battle of Gravelines, for the modern navy of Spain, see Spanish NavyThe Spanish Armada was the Spanish fleet that sailed against England under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia in 1588, with the intention of overthrowing Elizabeth I of England to stop English...
year, included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
- Tycho BraheTycho BraheTycho Brahe , born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations...
publishes De mundi aetheri recentioribus phaenomenis in UraniborgUraniborgUranienborg was a Danish astronomical observatory operated by Tycho Brahe; built circa 1576-1580 on Hven, an island in the Øresund between Zealand and Scania, which at that time was part of Denmark. The observatory was shortly after its construction expanded with an underground facility,...
. - Giovanni Paolo Gallucci publishes his star atlas Theatrum Mundi et Temporis.
History of science
- October 7 - The first biography of Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....
(d. 15431543 in scienceThe year 1543 in science and technology marks the beginning of the Scientific revolution and included many events, some of which are listed here.-Astronomy:...
) is completed by Bernardino BaldiBernardino BaldiBernardino Baldi was an Italian mathematician and writer.Baldi descended from a noble family from Urbino, Marche, where he was born...
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Mathematics
- Ferdinando I de Medici, Grand Duke of TuscanyTuscanyTuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
, appoints GalileoGalileo GalileiGalileo Galilei , was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism...
to the professorship of mathematics at the University of PisaUniversity of PisaThe University of Pisa , located in Pisa, Tuscany, is one of the oldest universities in Italy. It was formally founded on September 3, 1343 by an edict of Pope Clement VI, although there had been lectures on law in Pisa since the 11th century...
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Medicine
- Joachim Camerarius the younger publishes Hortus medicus.
- Thomas MuffetThomas MuffetThomas Muffet was an English naturalist and physician. He is best known for his Puritan beliefs, his study of insects in regards to medicine , his support of the Paracelsian system of medicine, and his emphasis on the importance of experience over reputation in the field of medicine.-Early...
publishes Nosomantica Hippocratea.
Technology
- Agostino RamelliAgostino RamelliAgostino Ramelli was an engineer who designed the "book wheel" or "reading wheel".During the Siege of La Rochelle , Agostino successfully engineered a mine under a bastion and breached the fortification, making him popular with his commander, Henri d'Anjou, who later became Henri III of France.In...
publishes Le diverse et artificiose Machine… Dal Ponte Della Tresia Ingegniero del Christianissimo Re di Francia et di Pollonia in Paris.
Births
- May 2 - Étienne PascalÉtienne PascalÉtienne Pascal was the father of Blaise Pascal. His father and mother were Martin Pascal, the treasurer of France, and Marguerite Pascal de Mons. He also had three daughters, two of whom survived past childhood: Gilberte and Jacqueline...
, FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
(d. 16511651 in scienceThe year 1651 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Anatomy:* Jean Pecquet publishes Experimenta nova anatomica which includes his findings on the lymphatic system....
) - May 13 - Ole WormOle WormOle Worm , who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician and antiquary.-Life:...
, DanishDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
physicianPhysicianA physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
and antiquary (d. 16551655 in scienceThe year 1655 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Biology:* Botanical garden established at Uppsala University.* Thomas Muffet's Healths Improvement, or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation is...
) - September 8 - Marin MersenneMarin MersenneMarin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics"...
, French mathematician (d. 16481648 in scienceThe year 1648 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Exploration:* June–September - Semyon Dezhnyov makes the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait.-Natural history:...
) - December 10 - Isaac BeeckmanIsaac BeeckmanIsaac Beeckman was a Dutch philosopher and scientist, who, through his studies and contact with leading natural philosophers, may have "virtually given birth to modern atomism".-Biography:...
, DutchNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
philosopher and scientist (d. 16371637 in scienceThe year 1637 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Mathematics:*René Descartes introduces the Cartesian coordinate system in his work La Géométrie and promotes intellectual rigour in Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences...
) - Jean-Jacques ChiffletJean-Jacques ChiffletJean-Jacques Chifflet was a French physician, antiquary and archaeologist.-Life:He visited Paris and Montpellier, and travelled in Italy and Germany. He acted as court physician to Philip IV of Spain...
, French physician and antiquary (d. 16601660 in scienceThe year 1660 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Events:* November 28 - At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Robert Moray, meet after a lecture by Wren and resolve to found "a College for the Promoting of...
) - Jan JanssoniusJan JanssoniusJohannes Janssonius was a Dutch cartographer who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century....
, Dutch cartographer (d. 16641664 in scienceThe year 1664 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Mathematics:* January 18 - Isaac Barrow is appointed first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge....
) - Cassiano dal PozzoCassiano dal PozzoCassiano dal Pozzo was an Italian scholar and patron of arts. The secretary of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, he was an antiquary in the classicizing circle of Rome, and a long-term friend and patron of Nicolas Poussin, whom he supported from his earliest arrival in Rome: Poussin in a letter...
, ItalianItalian peopleThe Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...
scholar and patron (d. 16571657 in scienceThe year 1657 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Mathematics:* Christiaan Huygens writes the first book to be published on probability theory, De ratiociniis in ludo aleae .-Medicine:...
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Deaths
- February 24 - Johann WeyerJohann WeyerJohann Weyer , was a Dutch physician, occultist and demonologist, disciple and follower of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches...
, Dutch physician and occultist (b. 15151515 in scienceThe year 1515 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.-Astronomy:* The last year in which Earth's so-called "second moon" Cruithne apparently orbits the earth.-Zoology:...
) - March 10 - Theodor ZwingerTheodor ZwingerTheodor Zwinger the Elder was a Swiss physician and humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature...
the elder, SwissSwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
philosopher, physician and encyclopedist (b. 15331533 in scienceThe year 1533 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.-Astronomy:* Petrus Apianus publishes at Ingolstadt Apiani Horoscopion and Buch Instrument ....
) - May 5 - Giorgio BiandrataGiorgio BiandrataGiorgio Biandrata or Blandrata , was an Italian physician and polemicist, who came of the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part of the 13th century, was born at Saluzzo, the youngest son of Bernardino Biandrata.He graduated in arts and medicine at Montpellier in 1533, and specialized in...
, Italian court physician (b. 1515) - Leonardo FioravantiLeonardo Fioravanti (doctor)Leonardo Fioravanti was a noted doctor whose activity in Bologna was recorded in the 16th century.- References :Camminare il mondo. Vita e avventure di Leonardo Fioravanti medico del Cinquecento,by Piero Camporesi, Garzanti Libri, 1997...
, BologneseBolognaBologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
physician (b. c.15181518 in scienceThe year 1518 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.-Mathematics:* Adam Ries publishes Rechnung auff der linihen, describing the use of a calculating board, a kind of two-dimensional abacus, for practical arithmetic.-Medicine:* July – Dancing Plague, a case...
) - Jacques Le MoyneJacques Le MoyneJacques le Moyne de Morgues was a French artist and member of Jean Ribault's expedition to the New World. His depictions of Native American, colonial life and plants are of extraordinary historical importance.-Expedition:...
, French scientific illustrator (b. c.1533) - Bernardino TelesioBernardino TelesioBernardino Telesio was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist.While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation made him the "first of the moderns" who eventually developed thescientific method.-Biography:...
, Italian philosopher and natural scientist (b. 15091509 in scienceThe year 1509 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.-Exploration:* September 11 - Diogo Lopes de Sequeira reaches Malacca, having crossed the Gulf of Bengal.-Mathematics:...
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