title: 1587 in science
text: # 1587 in science
  
  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)
  * January 8 – Johannes Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (died 1616)
  * October 22 – Joachim Jungius, German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science (died 1657)
  * Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist (died 1666)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 28 – Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Spanish physician and botanist (born 1514)
  * Possible date – Humphrey Baker, English arithmetician
  