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Overview of the events of 1580 in science
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Fields
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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.
[1]
Geology
April 6 –
Dover Straits earthquake
.
[2]
Births
January 12 –
Jan Baptist van Helmont
,
Flemish
chemist
(died
1644
)
[3]
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
^
George C. Kohn,
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence : From ancient times to the present
, Infobase Publishing, 2007, p. 436
.
^
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 160–162.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
"Jan Baptista van Helmont – Belgian scientist"
.
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Retrieved
3 April
2018
.
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