1593 in science

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.^[1][2]

Mathematics

• François Viète publishes Viète's formula, the first in European mathematics to represent an infinite process.^[3][4]

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).