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1577 science
1577
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.http://www.rundetaarn.dk/engelsk/observatorium/komet.htm The comet of 1577 2007-03-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20070429183515/http://www.rundetaarn.dk/engelsk/observatorium/komet.htm 29 April 2007
Mechanics
Guidobaldo del Monte, Marchese del Monte, publishes Mechanicorum Liber in Pisa.
Medicine
Publication of John Frampton's enm Ioyfull newes out of the newe founde worlde, wherein is declared the rare and singular vertues of diuerse and sundrie hearbes, trees, oyles, plantes, and stones, with their applications, as well for phisicke as chirurgerie, 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.The Revenge John Barratt http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/renaissance/revenge/revenge.aspx MilitaryHistoryOnline 2001 2011-08-08 2016-03-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192721/http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/renaissance/revenge/revenge.aspx dead
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)
References
Category:16th century in science
Category:1570s in science