1576 in science
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The year 1576 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
- August 8 â Work begins on Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory on Hven in Ãresund.[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 â Leonhard Rauwolf publishes the herbal Viertes Kreutterbuech â darein vil schoene und frembde Kreutter, the earliest Flora of the Near East.
Exploration
- July 11 â English navigator Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
- August 11 â 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 â Volcher Coiter, Dutch anatomist (born 1534)
- September 21 â Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician (born 1501)
- Richard Eden, English alchemist and translator of geographical works (born c.1520)