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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
.
Mathematics
François Viète
publishes
Viète's formula
, the first in European mathematics to represent an infinite process.
Medicine
First printed
Arabic language
edition of
Abà « ÿAlë al-Ḥusayn ibn ÿAbd AllÃÂh ibn SënÃÂ
's
The Canon of Medicine
.
Births
Deaths
June 25 âÂÂ
Michele Mercati
,
Italian
physician
and
botanist
(born
1541
)
Li Shizhen
,
Chinese
pharmacologist
(born
1518
).
References