1590 in science

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The year 1590 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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 the Netherlands.

Births

• approx. date – Giovanni Battista Zupi, Italian astronomer (died 1650)

Deaths

• December 20 – Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (born c. 1510).