1587 in science

The year 1587 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Exploration

c. March – An edition of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera's De Orbe Novo edited by Richard Hakluyt is published in Paris with a new map of the Americas.

Mathematics

Franciscus Patricius publishes Della nuova geometria in Ferrara.

Births

January 5 – Xu Xiake, Chinese explorer and geographer
January 8 – Johannes Fabricius, Frisian astronomer
October 22 – Joachim Jungius, German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science
Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist

Deaths

January 28 – Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Spanish physician and botanist
Possible date – Humphrey Baker, English arithmetician