Bartholomaeus Pitiscus publishes Trigonometria: sive de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis et perspicuus in Heidelberg, introducing the term trigonometry to Western European languages.[3]
Medicine
1595–1596 – Scipione (Girolamo) Mercurio publishes La commare o riccoglitrice ("The midwife"), the first text to advocate a Caesarean section on the living in cases of a contracted long pelvis.[4]
A first chair of medicine is created at Uppsala in Sweden. It will remain vacant until the appointment, in 1613 , of Johannes Chesnecopherus [sv].[5]
^Norman, Jeremy M. (1991). Morton's Medical Bibliography: An Annotated Check-List of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine (Garrison and Morton) (5th ed.). Aldershot: Scolar. ISBN0-85967-897-0.