1598 in science
The year 1598 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Astronomy
- May – Tycho Brahe's star catalogue Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica, listing the positions of 1,004 stars, is published.
Exploration
- Spanish prospectors discover the Ojuela Mine.
Zoology
Births
- April 17 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (died 1671)
Deaths
- June – Emery Molyneux, English-born maker of globes and scientific instruments
- October 11 – Joachim Camerarius the Younger, German physician and botanist (born 1534)
- Roch Le Baillif, French physician (born 1540)
gollark: That would be neat, or at least run in-person schools less like prisons.
gollark: > It's hard to compare certainty of one thing with a small risk of anotherThis can be done using "multiplication".
gollark: I mean, school is expensive, computers are... £200 or so for a very basic one?
gollark: Replying to https://discord.com/channels/346530916832903169/348702212110680064/747839510280405092This is somewhat bad. Although I imagine sending people computers would be cheaper than running school.
gollark: Okay, that might not be the reason.
References
- Pickering, Jane (2010). The Oxford Dodo: the sad story of the ungainly bird that became an Oxford icon. Oxford University Museum of Natural History. pp. 6–9. ISBN 978-0-9542726-2-3.
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