1592 in science

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The year 1592 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Biology
3 Mathematics
4 Physics
5 Births
6 Deaths

Astronomy

November–December - Appearance of the Guest stars observed by Korean astronomers.

Biology

Prospero Alpini publishes De Plantis Aegypti liber in Venice.

Mathematics

Giovanni Antonio Magini publishes De Planis Triangulis, describing use of the quadrant in surveying and astronomy, and Tabula tetragonica.

Physics

Galileo invents the thermometer.

Births

April 22 - Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor of the first mechanical calculator (d. 1635)

Deaths

May - Sir Thomas Cavendish, English explorer (b. 1560)
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer and scientist (b. 1532)