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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 Dutch 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.
Technology
The first recorded instance of a bayonet published in the Chinese military treatise Binglu.
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)
References
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- Hypericum leschenaultii
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- Teori bencana Toba
- Robert Pont
- Britania Raya
- Psikokinesis
- Vanuatu
- The Man in the Moone
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