1575 in science

Events

• Leiden University is founded.

Astronomy

• Cornelius Gemma is credited with publishing the first scientific illustration of the aurora, in his discussion of the 1572 supernova.

Geology

• December 16 – Valdivia earthquake in Chile.

Mathematics

• Guilielmus Xylander uses parallel vertical lines to indicate equality.

Medicine

• First publication of Ambroise Paré's collected works, Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré, in Paris, including some of the earliest descriptions of forensic medicine.

Publications

• Cornelius Gemma publishes De naturae divinis characterismis in Antwerp.

Deaths

• Tomás de Mercado, Spanish economist and theologian (born 1525)
• Costanzo Varolio, Italian anatomist and a papal physician to Gregory XIII (born 1543)

References

References

1. University of Oklahoma Libraries, History of Science Collections, Recent Acquisitions, "The First Book Printed on Tycho Brahe's Printing Press at Uraniborg: ''Diarium'', 1586," ''The Lynx'' '''2''' (November 2005), p. 9 [http://hsci.cas.ou.edu/images/lynx/Lynx-02-view.pdf online] {{webarchive. link. (2010-07-20 with Gemma's illustration.)
2. "''Cornelius Gemma: Cosmology, Medicine and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Louvain'' conference proceedings.".