1590 in science
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The year 1590 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany
- Establishment of Hortus Botanicus Leiden. Its director was Carolus Clusius.
Births
- Marie Fouquet, French medical writer (died 1681){{cite web|title=Madame François Fouquet (1590-1681)|url=http://data.bnf.fr/12459622/madame_francois_fouquet/|website=data.bnf.fr|accessdate=3 April 2018|archive-date=25 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725151029/http://data.bnf.fr/12459622/madame_francois_fouquet/|url-status=dead}}
- approx. date – Giovanni Battista Zupi, Italian astronomer (died 1650){{cite book|last1=Greeley|first1=Ronald|last2=Batson|first2=Raymond|title=The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System|date=2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521806336|page=[https://archive.org/details/compactnasaatlas0000gree/page/378 378]|url=https://archive.org/details/compactnasaatlas0000gree|url-access=registration}}
Deaths
- August 25 – Giulio Alessandrini, Italian physician, author, and poet (born 1506).
- December 20 – Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (born c. 1510).{{cite journal|title=[The surgeon of 4 kings, Ambroise Paré (1510 to 20 December 1590)]|pmid=2091407|journal=Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Fortbildung|pages=1284–1287|date=1990}}