1587 in science
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The year 1587 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Exploration
- c. March – An edition of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera's De Orbe Novo ("On the New World", 1530) edited by Richard Hakluyt is published in Paris with a new map of the Americas.
Mathematics
- Franciscus Patricius publishes Della nuova geometria in Ferrara.
Births
- January 5 – Xu Xiake, Chinese explorer and geographer (died 1641)[1]
- January 8 – Johannes Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (died 1616)[2]
- October 22 – Joachim Jungius, German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science (died 1657)[3]
- Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist (died 1666)[4]
Deaths
- January 28 – Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Spanish physician and botanist (born 1514)[5]
- Possible date – Humphrey Baker, English arithmetician
References
- ↑ Brown, Kerry (December 27, 2017). Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography. Berkshire Publishing Group. p. 1043. ISBN 9781614729167.
- ↑ Drake, Stillman (2003). Galileo at Work His Scientific Biography. Dover Publications. p. 447. ISBN 9780486495422.
- ↑ Bonner, Patrick (February 2011). Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology. Springer Netherlands. p. 171. ISBN 9789400700376.
- ↑ "Song Yingxing (1587 – c. 1666)". The China Encyclopedia. January 13, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2026.
- ↑ Biographical Notes Upon Botanists Volume 2. G. K. Hall. 1965. p. 164.