1585 in science

none 1585 science 1585 The year 1585 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. Exploration August 8 – English explorer John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in Baffin Island in his quest for the Northwest Passage. Mathematics John Blagrave publishes The Mathematical Jewel, showing the making and most excellent use of a singular instrument so called, in that it performeth with wonderful dexterity whatever is to be done either by quadrant, ship, circle, cylinder, ring, dial, horoscope, astrolabe, sphere, globe or any such like heretofore devised.David Nash Ford John Blagrave (c. 1561–1611) Royal Berkshire History http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jblagrave.html 2001 2011-02-27 Giordano Bruno uses Fabrizio Mordente "proportional eight-pointed compass" to refute Aristotle's hypothesis on the incommensurability of infinitesimals, thus confirming the existence of the "minimum" which lays the basis of his own atomic theory. Bruno publishes his proofs as Figuratio Aristotelici Physici auditus.Figuratio Aristotelici Physici auditus 1585 Bruno, Giordano Simon Stevin publishes De Thiende, introducing a form of decimal fraction. Medicine Samuel Eisenmenger publishes Cyclopaedia Paracelsica Christiana. Three books of this were the origin and tradition of the liberal arts, also of the physiognomy, above miracles and weather in Brussels. Other events The University of Franeker was founded in the United Provinces of the Netherlands. The University of Graz was founded by Charles II, Archduke of Austria.Die Universität im Porträt https://www.uni-graz.at/de/die-universitaet/die-universitaet-graz/die-universitaet-im-portraet/ University of Graz 2020-10-05 2017-07-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20170704032745/https://www.uni-graz.at/de/die-universitaet/die-universitaet-graz/die-universitaet-im-portraet/ dead Births February 12 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish polymath (died 1629) November 1 – Jan Brożek, Polish polymath (died 1652) Deaths March 10 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (born 1517) Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Arab astronomer and inventor (born c. 1526) References Category:16th century in science Category:1580s in science