1595 in science
The year 1595 in science and technology involved some significant events, some of which are listed here.
Chemistry
- Andreas Libavius publishes Opera omnia medico-chymica.
Exploration
- July 21 – A Spanish expedition led by Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira makes the first European landing in Polynesia, on the Marquesas Islands.
- Sir Walter Raleigh explores Guyana and eastern Venezuela.
Mathematics
- Bartholomaeus Pitiscus publishes Trigonometria: sive de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis et perspicuus in Heidelberg, introducing the term trigonometry to Western European languages.
Medicine
- 1595–1596 – Scipione Mercurio publishes La commare o riccoglitrice, the first text to advocate a Caesarean section on the living in cases of a contracted long pelvis.
- A first chair of medicine is created at Uppsala in Sweden. It will remain vacant until the appointment, in 1613, of.
Technology
- Hull of first fluyt laid in the Dutch Republic.
Births
- June 13 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician.
- Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch drainage engineer.
Deaths
- August 24 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer.
- November 12 – Sir John Hawkins, English navigator .