1595 in science

• Andreas Libavius publishes Opera omnia medico-chymica. ==Exploration==

• July 21 – A Spanish expedition led by Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira makes the first European landing in Polynesia, on the Marquesas Islands. • Sir Walter Raleigh explores Guyana and eastern Venezuela. ==Mathematics==

• Bartholomaeus Pitiscus publishes Trigonometria: sive de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis et perspicuus in Heidelberg, introducing the term trigonometry to Western European languages. ==Medicine==

• 1595–1596 – Scipione (Girolamo) Mercurio publishes ("The midwife"), the first text to advocate a Caesarean section on the living in cases of a contracted long pelvis. • A first chair of medicine is created at Uppsala in Sweden. It will remain vacant until the appointment, in 1613, of . ==Technology==

• Hull of first fluyt laid in the Dutch Republic. ==Births==

• June 13 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician (died 1667). • Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch drainage engineer (died 1677). ==Deaths==

• August 24 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born 1546). • November 12 – Sir John Hawkins, English navigator (born 1532) (at sea). ==References==