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 resund.^[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 Viertes Kreutterbuech – darein vil schoene und frembde Kreutter, the earliest Flora of the Near East.

Exploration

• July - Martin Frobisher's expedition enters Frobisher Bay.^[3]

Geophysics

• Robert Norman measures magnetic dip.^[3][5]

Births

• Salomon de Caus, French mechanical engineer (died 1626)

Deaths

• June 2 - Volcher Coiter, Dutch anatomist (born 1534)
• September 21 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician (born 1501)

References

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