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 Viertes Kreutterbuech – darein vil schoene und frembde Kreutter, 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
Births
- Salomon de Caus, French mechanical engineer
- Angelo Sala Italian doctor and early iatrochemist born in Venice
Deaths
- June 2 – Volcher Coiter, Dutch anatomist
- September 21 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician
- Richard Eden, English alchemist and translator of geographical works