1595 in science
# 1595 in science

The year 1595 in science and technology involved some significant events, some of which are listed here.

## Chemistry

* Andreas Libavius publishes Opera omnia medico-chymica.

## Exploration

* July 21 – A Spanish expedition led by Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira makes the first European landing in Polynesia, on the Marquesas Islands.
* Sir Walter Raleigh explores Guyana and eastern Venezuela.

## Mathematics

* Bartholomaeus Pitiscus publishes Trigonometria: sive de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis et perspicuus in Heidelberg, introducing the term trigonometry to Western European languages.

## Medicine

* 1595–1596 – Scipione (Girolamo) Mercurio publishes La commare o riccoglitrice ("The midwife"), the first text to advocate a Caesarean section on the living in cases of a contracted long pelvis.
* A first chair of medicine is created at Uppsala in Sweden. It will remain vacant until the appointment, in 1613 , of Johannes Chesnecopherus [sv].

## Technology

* Hull of first fluyt laid in the Dutch Republic.

## Births

* June 13 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician (died 1667).
* Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch drainage engineer (died 1677).

## Deaths

* August 24 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born 1546).
* November 12 – Sir John Hawkins, English navigator (born 1532) (at sea).
