1583 in science

none 1583 science 1583 The year 1583 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Botany Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum stirpium per Pannonias observatorum Historiae, the earliest book on Alpine flora.Egmond Florike The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610 London Pickering & Chatto 2010 1-84893-008-9 Mathematics Thomas Fincke's Geometria rotundi is published, introducing the terms tangent and secant for trigonometric functions. Johann Thomas Freigius' la Quaestiones geometricae et stereometricae Euclidis is published in Basel following his death (January 16) from plague. Physiology and medicine Georg Bartisch's Ophthalmodouleia, Das ist Augendienst is published in Dresden, the first modern work on ophthalmology. Births February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1656) Deaths December 31 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (born 1524) References Category:1583 Category:16th century in science Category:1580s in science