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 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).
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