Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general/1576

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

1576 in science

none

none

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.

Botany

  • Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, one of the earliest Floras of the Iberian Peninsula.
  • 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.

Geophysics

  • Robert Norman measures magnetic dip.

Births

  • Salomon de Caus, French mechanical engineer (died 1626)
  • Angelo Sala Italian doctor and early iatrochemist born in Venice (died 1637)

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

References

  1. "The Tycho Brahe calendar".
  2. Christianson, John Robert. (2000). "On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601". Cambridge University Press.
  3. Grun, Bernard. (1991). "The Timetables of History". Simon & Schuster.
  4. Egmond, Florike. (2010). "The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610". Pickering & Chatto.
  5. Serson, Paul. (1981-06-04). "Tracking the north magnetic pole". [[New Scientist]].
Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

1576 science-by-year 16th-century-in-science 1570s-in-science
Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about 1576 in science — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report