The year 1576 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Astronomy
edit- August 8 – Work begins on Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory on Hven in Øresund.[1][2]
Botany
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- Robert Norman measures magnetic dip.[3][5]
Births
edit- Salomon de Caus, French mechanical engineer (died 1626)
- Angelo Sala Italian doctor and early iatrochemist born in Venice (died 1637)
Deaths
edit- June 2 – Volcher Coiter, Dutch anatomist (born 1534)
- September 21 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician (born 1501)
- Richard Eden, English alchemist and translator of geographical works (born c.1520)
References
edit- ^ "The Tycho Brahe calendar". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. 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.
- ^ 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 978-1-84893-008-7.
- ^ Serson, Paul (1981-06-04). "Tracking the north magnetic pole". New Scientist: 616. Retrieved 2011-04-20.