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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
)
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
^
"The Tycho Brahe calendar"
. Archived from
the original
on 2011-06-05
. Retrieved
2011-04-19
.
^
Christianson, John Robert (2000).
On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601
. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-65081-X
.
^
a
b
c
Grun, Bernard (1991). "1576".
The Timetables of History
(3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p.
255
.
ISBN
0-671-74919-6
.
^
Egmond, Florike (2010).
The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610
. London: Pickering & Chatto.
ISBN
978-1-84893-008-7
.
^
Serson, Paul (1981-06-04).
"Tracking the north magnetic pole"
.
New Scientist
: 616
. Retrieved
2011-04-20
.
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