1592 in science
The year 1592 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- November–December – Appearance of the Guest stars observed by Korean astronomers.
Biology
- Prospero Alpini publishes De Plantis Aegypti liber in Venice.
Geography
- August 9 – English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, probably discovers the Falkland Islands.
- An abridgement of Muhammad al-Idrisi's 12th-century geographical compilation is published as De geographia universali or Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī dhikr al-amṣār wa-al-aqṭār wa-al-buldān wa-al-juzur wa-al-madā’ in wa-al-āfāq in Rome.
Mathematics
- March 14 – Ultimate 'Pi Day': the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar.
- Giovanni Antonio Magini publishes De Planis Triangulis, describing use of the quadrant in surveying and astronomy, and Tabula tetragonica.
Physics
- Galileo invents the thermometer.
Technology
- March – Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin perfects the armed turtle ship.
Institutions
- Trinity College Dublin is established.
Births
- April 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor of the first mechanical calculator
Deaths
- May – Sir Thomas Cavendish, English explorer
- October 14 - Urbain Hémard, French physician and dentist
- Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer and scientist