1606 in science

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

Cryptography

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

Exploration

• 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 Duke of York's ship Duyfken, under Captain Willem Janszoon, explores the western coast of Cape York Peninsula.
• May – Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the islands of Vanuatu; believing them to be Australia, he names them La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo.
• October – Luís Vaz de Torres is the first European to sail through the Torres Strait.

Mathematics

• Giovanni Antonio Magini devises trigonometric tables of high accuracy.

Physics

• Approx. date – Galileo invents a thermometer based on the expansion of gas.

Births

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

Deaths

• 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)