1583 in science

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The year 1583 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Botany

Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum stirpium per Pannonias observatorum Historiae, the earliest book on Alpine flora.^[1]

Mathematics

Thomas Fincke's Geometria rotundi is published, introducing the terms tangent and secant for trigonometric functions.
Johann Thomas Freigius' Quaestiones geometricae et stereometricae Euclidis is published in Basel following his death (January 16) from plague.

References

^ Egmond, Florike (2010). The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610. London: Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 1848930089.