1576 in science

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

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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)
• Richard Eden, English alchemist and translator of geographical works (born c.1520)

References

1. "The Tycho Brahe calendar". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
2. Christianson, John Robert (2000). On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65081-X.
3. Grun, Bernard (1991). "1576". The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 255. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
4. Egmond, Florike (2010). The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610. London: Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 978-1-84893-008-7.
5. Serson, Paul (1981-06-04). "Tracking the north magnetic pole". New Scientist: 616. Retrieved 2011-04-20.