1576 in science
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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)
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