1593 in science

The year 1593 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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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]

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).

References

1. Mendyk, Stan G. (1989). Speculum Britanniae: regional study, antiquarianism, and science in Britain to 1700. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5744-6.
2. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 163–165. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.