1593 in science

The year 1593 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Botany

 * Founding of the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier by Pierre Richer de Belleval.
 * Founding of the Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg.
 * Carolus Clusius becomes Professor of Botany at Leiden University, taking charge of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden.

Geography

 * John Norden begins publication of his Speculum Britanniae.

Mathematics

 * François Viète publishes Viète's formula, the first in European mathematics to represent an infinite process.

Medicine

 * First printed Arabic language edition of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā's The Canon of Medicine.

Deaths

 * June 25 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist (born 1541)
 * Li Shizhen, Chinese pharmacologist (born 1518).