1593 in science

• 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.

• John Norden begins publication of his Speculum Britanniae.{{cite book|first=Stan G.|last=Mendyk|title=Speculum Britanniae: regional study, antiquarianism, and science in Britain to 1700|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1989|isbn=0-8020-5744-6}}{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=163–165|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}

• François Viète publishes Viète's formula, the first in European mathematics to represent an infinite process.{{cite book|last=Beckmann|first=Petr|author-link=Petr Beckmann|edition=2nd|isbn=978-0-88029-418-8|mr=0449960|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=XqqUUSyz138C&pg=PA94 94–95]|publisher=Golem Press|location=Boulder, CO|title=A History of {{pi}}|title-link=A History of Pi|year=1971}}{{cite book|last=Maor|first=Eli|author-link=Eli Maor|isbn=978-1-4008-4282-7|pages=50, 140|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ|title=Trigonometric Delights|year=2011}}

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

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

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