title: 1588 in science
text: # 1588 in science
  
  The year 1588 in science and technology, Armada year, included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
  
  ## Astronomy
  
  * Tycho Brahe publishes De mundi aetheri recentioribus phaenomenis in Uraniborg.
  * Giovanni Paolo Gallucci publishes his star atlas Theatrum Mundi et Temporis (Theater of the world and time).
  
  ## History of science
  
  * October 7 – The first biography of Nicolaus Copernicus (died 1543) is completed by Bernardino Baldi.
  
  ## Mathematics
  
  * Pietro Cataldi discovers the sixth and seventh Mersenne primes by this year.
  * Giovanni Antonio Magini is chosen over Galileo to occupy the chair of mathematics at the University of Bologna after the death of Egnatio Danti.
  * Ferdinando I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, appoints Galileo to the professorship of mathematics at the University of Pisa.
  
  ## Medicine
  
  * Joachim Camerarius the younger publishes Hortus medicus.
  * Thomas Muffet publishes Nosomantica Hippocratea.
  
  ## Technology
  
  * Agostino Ramelli publishes Le diverse et artificiose Machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli, Dal Ponte Della Tresia Ingegniero del Christianissimo Re di Francia et di Pollonia in Paris.
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 2 – Étienne Pascal, French mathematician (died 1651)
  * May 13 – Ole Worm, Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary (died 1655)
  * September 8 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (died 1648)
  * December 10 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch philosopher and scientist (died 1637)
  * Jean-Jacques Chifflet, French physician and antiquary (died 1660)
  * Jan Janssonius, Dutch cartographer (died 1664)
  * Cassiano dal Pozzo, Italian scholar and patron (died 1657)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 24 – Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist (born 1515)
  * March 1 – Jacques Daléchamps, French physician and botanist (born 1513)
  * March 10 – Theodor Zwinger the elder, Swiss philosopher, physician and encyclopedist (born 1533)
  * May 5 – Giorgio Biandrata, Italian court physician (born 1515)
  * October 2– Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and natural scientist (born 1509)
  * Leonardo Fioravanti, Bolognese physician (born 1517)
  * Jacques le Moyne, French scientific illustrator (born c. 1533)
  