1576 in science
| List of years in science (table) |
|---|
| ... 1566 . 1567 . 1568 . 1569 . 1570 . 1571 . 1572 ... 1573 1574 1575 -1576- 1577 1578 1579 ... 1580 . 1581 . 1582 . 1583 . 1584 . 1585 . 1586 ... |
| Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Philosophy . Science +... |
The year 1576 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
- August 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him.[3]
Geophysics
- Robert Norman measures magnetic dip.[3][5]
Births
- Salomon de Caus, French mechanical engineer (died 1626)
Deaths
- June 2 – Volcher Coiter, Dutch anatomist (born 1534)
- September 21 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician (born 1501)
References
- ↑ "The Tycho Brahe calendar". Retrieved 2011-04-19.
- ↑ Christianson, John Robert (2000). On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65081-X.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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 1-84893-008-9.
- ↑ Serson, Paul (1981-06-04). "Tracking the north magnetic pole". New Scientist: 616. Retrieved 2011-04-20.