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The year 1589 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
[edit]- Giovanni Antonio Magini's Novæ cœlestium orbium theoricæ congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici is published in Venice, presenting a geocentric system of celestial spheres in opposition to the Copernican model.
Botany
[edit]- Establishment of a botanical garden in Basel.
Exploration
[edit]- Publication of Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation begins.
Medicine
[edit]- Publication of Oswald Gabelchover's Artzneybuch in Tübingen. This medical textbook will go through at least eight editions.
- Baldo Angelo Abati : De admirabili viperae natura et de mirificis eiusdem facultatibus[1] published at Urbino.
Births
[edit]- July 3 : Johann Georg Wirsung, German anatomist (died 1643).
Deaths
[edit]- January – Thomas Penny, English botanist and entomologist (born 1530)
- April 7 – Julius Caesar Aranzi, Italian anatomist (born 1530)
- Probable date – Bernard Palissy, French ceramicist and hydraulic engineer (born c. 1510)