1606 in science

Overview of the events of 1606 in science

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The year 1606 in science and technology involved some significant events.

## Cryptography[edit]

* The cryptographic text Steganographia, written by Johannes Trithemius c.1499/1500, is published in Frankfurt.

## Exploration[edit]

* February 26
* Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European.
* Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the Pitcairn Islands.
* March – The Dutch ship Duyfken, under Captain Willem Janszoon, explores the western coast of Cape York Peninsula.[1]
* May – Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the islands of Vanuatu; believing them to be Australia, he names them La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo.[2]
* October – Luís Vaz de Torres is the first European to sail through the Torres Strait.

## Mathematics[edit]

* Giovanni Antonio Magini devises trigonometric tables of high accuracy.

## Physics[edit]

* Approx. date – Galileo invents a thermometer based on the expansion of gas.[3]

## Technology[edit]

* The first recorded instance of a bayonet published in the Chinese military treatise Binglu [zh].

## Births[edit]

* January 4 (bapt.) – Edmund Castell, English orientalist (died 1685)

## Deaths[edit]

* September 28 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and scientist (born 1547)
* November 13 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and historian (born 1530)
* Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Dutch nautical chart maker (born 1533/4)

## References[edit]

1. ^ McHugh, Evan (2006). 1606: An Epic Adventure. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. p. 20\. ISBN 978-0-86840-866-8.
2. ^ Richardson, William A. R. (2008). Was Australia Charted Before 1606: the Jave la Grande Inscriptions. Australia: Everbest. p. 20.
3. ^ Drake, Stillman (2003). Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography. Mineola, NY: Dover. p. 121.

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