1596 in science
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The year 1596 in science and technology included some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- David Fabricius discovers the first non-supernova variable star, Omicron Ceti.
- Johannes Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum is the first published defense of the Copernican (heliocentric) system of planetary motion.
[edit] Technology
- John Harington describes the "Ajax", a precursor to the modern flush toilet, in The Metamorphosis of Ajax.
[edit] Births
- March 31 - René Descartes (d. 1650), mathematician & scientist.
[edit] Deaths
- September 15 - Leonhard Rauwolf (b. either 1535 or 1540), botanist and physician.
