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.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 History of science 3 Mathematics 4 Medicine 5 Technology 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 References

Astronomy

• Tycho Brahe publishes De mundi aetheri recentioribus phaenomenis in Uraniborg.
• Giovanni Paolo Gallucci publishes his star atlas Theatrum Mundi et Temporis.

History of science

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

Mathematics

• Pietro Cataldi discovers the sixth and seventh Mersenne primes by this year.^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• Thomas Muffet publishes Nosomantica Hippocratea.

Technology

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

Deaths

• February 24 - Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist (b. 1515)
• March 10 - Theodor Zwinger the elder, Swiss philosopher, physician and encyclopedist (b. 1533)
• May 5 - Giorgio Biandrata, Italian court physician (b. 1515)
• Leonardo Fioravanti, Bolognese physician (b. c.1518)
• Jacques Le Moyne, French scientific illustrator (b. c.1533)
• Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and natural scientist (b. 1509)

References

1. ^ Caldwell, Chris. "The largest known prime by year". http://primes.utm.edu/notes/by_year.html. Retrieved 2011-12-30. 
2. ^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 261. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.