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1580 in science

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The year 1580 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

  • The Constantinople Observatory of Taqi ad-Din is destroyed by Sultan Selim II.

Exploration

  • September 26 – Francis Drake in the Golden Hind sails into Plymouth having completed the second circumnavigation of the world, westabout, begun in 1577.

Medicine

  • Severe outbreak of smallpox in Venezuela: it strikes the Caracas and other Indians in the North and greatly weakens Indian resistance to the Spanish colonizing of the region.

Geology

  • April 6 – Dover Straits earthquake.

Births

  • January 12 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (died 1644)
  • December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (died 1637)
  • Peter Crüger, German polymath (died 1639)
  • Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, Snell's law (died 1626)

Deaths

  • May 3 – Thomas Tusser, English chorister and agriculturalist (born c. 1524)
  • September 15 – Friedrich Risner, German mathematician (born c. 1533)
  • Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia, Sicilian anatomist (born 1510).

References

References

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  2. (1992). "The Chronology of British History". Century Ltd.
  3. "Jan Baptista van Helmont – Belgian scientist".
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