1576 in science

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The year 1576 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Botany
3 Exploration
4 Geophysics
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 References

Astronomy

August 8 - Work begins on Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory on Hven in Øresund.^[1]^[2]

Botany

Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, one of the earliest Floras of the Iberian Peninsula.^[3]^[4]
probable date - Leonhard Rauwolf publishes the herbal Viertes Kreutterbuech – darein vil schoene und frembde Kreutter, the earliest Flora of the Near East.

Exploration

July - Martin Frobisher's expedition enters Frobisher Bay.^[3]

Geophysics

Robert Norman measures magnetic dip.^[3]^[5]

Births

Salomon de Caus, French mechanical engineer (d. 1626)

Deaths

June 2 - Volcher Coiter, Dutch anatomist (b. 1534)
September 21 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician (b. 1501)

References

^ "The Tycho Brahe calendar". http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/tychomalnak.html. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
^ Christianson, John Robert (2000). On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052165081X.
^ ^a ^b ^c Grun, Bernard (1991). "1576". The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 255. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
^ Egmond, Florike (2010). The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610. London: Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 1848930089.
^ Serson, Paul (1981-06-04). "Tracking the north magnetic pole". New Scientist: 616. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gLuSoy6WvSEC&pg=PA616&lpg=PA616&dq=%22Robert+Norman%22+magnetic+inclination+%22New+Scientist%22&source=bl&ots=d8_1LiXz0b&sig=3ev1-KBQtVog76CXkC-Oo3YeBHE&hl=en&ei=P76uTcCHA5KJhQfzp5XgAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2011-04-20.