1590 in science
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The year 1590 in science and technology involved some significant events.
[edit] 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 Holland.
[edit] Births
- approx. date - Giovanni Battista Zupi, Italian astronomer (d. 1650)
[edit] Deaths
- December 20 - Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (b. c.1510).
