1598 in science

Astronomy

• May – Tycho Brahe's star catalogue , listing the positions of 1,004 stars, is published.

  Exploration

• Spanish prospectors discover the Ojuela Mine.

  Zoology

• Autumn – After being separated from the main Second Dutch Expedition to Indonesia fleet of Admiral Wybrand Van Warwyck, three ships under Jacob Cornelisz. van Neck land on the island which they name Mauritius and sight the dodo bird ; it will become extinct around 1681.

  Births

• April 17 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer

  Deaths

• June – Emery Molyneux, English-born maker of globes and scientific instruments
• October 11 – Joachim Camerarius the Younger, German physician and botanist
• Roch Le Baillif, French physician