1573 in science

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The year 1573 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

• Tycho Brahe publishes De Stella Nova, thus coining the term nova.

Medicine

• Publication of the Chirurgia Magna of Paracelsus, a translation into Latin of his work on surgery, Die grosse Wundartzney (1536), in Basel, allowing its wider dissemination throughout Europe.

Births

• January 10 – Simon Marius, German astronomer who names the Galilean moons of Jupiter (died 1624).
• July 12 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer who observes sunspots (died 1650).
• September 28 – Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss-born physician (died 1654 or 1655).

Deaths

• April 29 – Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer, explorer and cartographer (born c. 1509) (beheaded by Spanish troops in Panama).
• July 29 – John Caius, English physician and benefactor (born 1510).