1592 in science
# 1592 in science

The year 1592 in science and technology involved some significant events.

## Astronomy

* November–December – Appearance of the Guest stars observed by Korean astronomers.

## Biology

* Prospero Alpini publishes De Plantis Aegypti liber in Venice.

## Geography

* August 9 – English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, probably discovers the Falkland Islands.
* An abridgement of Muhammad al-Idrisi's 12th-century geographical compilation is published as De geographia universali or Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī dhikr al-amṣār wa-al-aqṭār wa-al-buldān wa-al-juzur wa-al-madā’ in wa-al-āfāq in Rome.

## Mathematics

* March 14 – Ultimate 'Pi Day': the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar.
* Giovanni Antonio Magini publishes De Planis Triangulis, describing use of the quadrant in surveying and astronomy, and Tabula tetragonica.

## Physics

* Galileo invents the thermometer.

## Technology

* March – Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin perfects the armed turtle ship.

## Institutions

* Trinity College Dublin is established.

## Births

* April 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor of the first mechanical calculator (died 1635)

## Deaths

* May – Sir Thomas Cavendish, English explorer (born 1560)
* October 14 - Urbain Hémard, French physician and dentist (born circa 1548)
* Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer and scientist (born 1532)
