1590 in science
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The year 1590 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Optics
- Glass lenses are developed in the Netherlands and used for the first time in microscopes and telescopes.
- A compound microscope is developed by Zacharias Janssen and his father in the Netherlands.
Births
- approx. date – Giovanni Battista Zupi, Italian astronomer (died 1650)
- Marie Fouquet, French medical writer (died 1681)
Deaths
- December 20 – Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (born c. 1510).
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