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1583 in science

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The year 1583 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Botany

  • Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum stirpium per Pannonias observatorum Historiae, the earliest book on Alpine flora.

Mathematics

  • Thomas Fincke's Geometria rotundi is published, introducing the terms tangent and secant for trigonometric functions.
  • Johann Thomas Freigius' Quaestiones geometricae et stereometricae Euclidis is published in Basel following his death (January 16) from plague.

Physiology and medicine

  • Georg Bartisch's Ophthalmodouleia, Das ist Augendienst is published in Dresden, the first modern work on ophthalmology.

Births

  • February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1656)

Deaths

  • December 31 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (born 1524)

References

References

  1. Egmond, Florike. (2010). "The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610". Pickering & Chatto.
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