1576 in science

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.

Botany

• Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, one of the earliest Floras of the Iberian Peninsula.
• 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.

Geophysics

• Robert Norman measures magnetic dip.

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)

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