1580 in science
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The year 1580 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
- The Istanbul observatory of Taqi al-Din is destroyed by Sultan Selim II.
Exploration
- September 26 – Francis Drake in the Golden Hind sails into Plymouth having completed the second circumnavigation of the world, westabout, begun in 1577.
Geology
- April 6 – Dover Straits earthquake.[1]
Births
- December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (died 1637)
- Peter Crüger, German polymath (died 1639)
- Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, Snell's law (died 1626)
Deaths
- May 3 – Thomas Tusser, English chorister and agriculturalist (born c. 1524)
- September 15 – Friedrich Risner, German mathematician (born c. 1533)
- Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia, Sicilian anatomist (born 1510).