Editing 1606 in science

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[[File:1606_Regimiento_de_navegacion_Andres_Garcia_de_Cespedes_-_Frontispicio.jpg|thumb|right|Frontispiece of the book Regimiento de Navegación by Andrés García os Céspedes, published in 1606.]]
The year '''1606 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Cryptography==
* The [[Cryptography|cryptographic]] text ''Steganographia'', written by [[Johannes Trithemius]] c.[[1499]]/[[1500 in science|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]].<ref>{{cite book|last=McHugh|first=Evan|title=1606: An Epic Adventure|location=Sydney|publisher=University of New South Wales Press|year=2006|page=20|isbn=978-0-86840-866-8}}</ref>
* May – Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the islands of [[Vanuatu]]; believing them to be Australia, he names them ''{{Lang|es|La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo}}''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Richardson|first=William A. R.|title=Was Australia Charted Before 1606: the Jave la Grande Inscriptions|location=Australia|publisher=Everbest|year=2008|page=20}}</ref>
* October – [[Luís Vaz de Torres]] is the first [[Europe]]an to sail through the [[Torres Strait]].

==Mathematics==
* [[Giovanni Antonio Magini]] devises [[trigonometry|trigonometric]] tables of high accuracy.

==Physics==
* ''Approx. date'' – [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] invents a [[thermometer]] based on the expansion of gas.<ref>{{cite book|last=Drake|first=Stillman|title=Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography|location=Mineola, NY|publisher=Dover|year=2003|page=121}}</ref>

==Technology==
* The first recorded instance of a [[bayonet]] published in the Chinese military treatise {{ill|Binglu|zh|兵录}}.

==Births==
* January 4 ''(bapt.)'' – [[Edmund Castell]], [[English people|English]] [[Oriental studies|orientalist]] (died 1685)

==Deaths==
* September 28 – [[Nicolaus Taurellus]], [[German people|German]] [[philosopher]] and scientist (born [[1547 in science|1547]])
* November 13 – [[Girolamo Mercuriale]], [[Italian people|Italian]] [[physician]] and [[historian]] (born [[1530 in science|1530]])
* [[Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[nautical chart]] maker (born 1533/4)

==References==
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