1577 in science

The following events in the fields of science and technology occurred in the year 1577.

Astronomy

• The Constantinople Observatory of Taqi ad-Din is completed.
• The Great Comet of 1577 is seen. Tycho Brahe is able to discover from his observations that comets and similar objects travel above the Earth's atmosphere.

Mechanics

• Guidobaldo del Monte, Marchese del Monte, publishes Mechanicorum Liber in Pisa.

Medicine

• Publication of John Frampton's , an English translation from Nicolás Monardes' Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales (1565).

Technology

• English race-built galleon Revenge launched at the Royal Dockyard, Deptford, by Master Shipwright Mathew Baker.

Births

• October 3 – Fortunio Liceti, Italian Aristotelian scientific polymath (died 1657)

Deaths

• Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian physician and botanist (born 1501)
• Adam von Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (born 1528)

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