1576 in science explained

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, 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Tycho Brahe calendar. 2011-04-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20110605080631/http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/tychomalnak.html. 2011-06-05. dead.
2. Book: Christianson, John Robert. On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601. Cambridge University Press. 2000. 0-521-65081-X.
3. Book: Grun, Bernard. 1576. The Timetables of History. 3rd. New York. Simon & Schuster. 1991. 0-671-74919-6. 255. registration.
4. Book: Egmond, Florike. The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610. London. Pickering & Chatto. 2010. 978-1-84893-008-7.
5. Paul. Serson. Tracking the north magnetic pole. New Scientist. 1981-06-04. 616. 2011-04-20.