1593 in science

Botany

• Founding of the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier by Pierre Richer de Belleval.
• Founding of the Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg.
• Carolus Clusius becomes Professor of Botany at Leiden University, taking charge of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden.

  Geography

• John Norden begins publication of his Speculum Britanniae.

  Medicine

• First printed Arabic language edition of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā's The Canon of Medicine.

  Births

Deaths

• June 25 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist
• Li Shizhen, Chinese pharmacologist.