1592 in science
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The year 1592 in science
and technology
involved some significant events.
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and technology
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 ;...
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- November–December - Appearance of the Guest starGuest star (astronomy)In Chinese astronomy, the term guest star refers to a star which has suddenly appeared visible in the place where no star had previously been observed and becomes invisible again after some time. The term is a literal translation from ancient Chinese astronomical records...
s observed by KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
n astronomerAstronomerAn astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
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Births
- April 22 - Wilhelm SchickardWilhelm SchickardWilhelm Schickard was a German polymath who designed a calculating machine in 1623, twenty years before the Pascaline of Blaise Pascal. Unfortunately a fire destroyed the machine as it was being built in 1624 and Schickard decided to abandon his project...
, German inventor of the first mechanical calculatorCalculatorAn electronic calculator is a small, portable, usually inexpensive electronic device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic. Modern calculators are more portable than most computers, though most PDAs are comparable in size to handheld calculators.The first solid-state electronic...
(d. 16351635 in scienceThe year 1635 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Botany:* Jardin des Plantes, Paris, planted as a physic garden by Guy de La Brosse.-Births:* May 9 - J. J. Becher, German physician and chemist...
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Deaths
- May - Sir Thomas CavendishThomas CavendishSir Thomas Cavendish was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe...
, EnglishEnglish peopleThe English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
explorer (b. 15601560 in scienceThe year 1560 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.-Events:* The first scientific society, the Academia Secretorum Naturae, is founded in Naples by Giambattista della Porta.-Astronomy:...
) - Pedro Sarmiento de GamboaPedro Sarmiento de GamboaPedro Sarmiento de Gamboa was a Spanish explorer, author, historian, astronomer, and scientist. His birthplace is not certain and may have been Pontevedra, in Galicia, where his paternal family originated or Alcalá de Henares in Castile, where he later is known to have studied...
, SpanishSpanish peopleThe Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....
explorer and scientist (b. 15321532 in scienceThe year 1532 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.-Astronomy:* Petrus Apianus publishes at Ingolstadt Ein Bericht der Kurtzer Observation unnd urtels des Jűngst erschinnen Cometen and Quadrans astronomicus Apiani .-Botany:* Otto Brunfels publishes a...
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