1586 in science

none 1586 science 1586 The year 1586 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Astronomy The last time Mercury and Venus transit the sun at the same time.Venus to cross face of sun in a once-in-a-lifetime event in June http://m.digitaljournal.com/article/324025 m.digitaljournal.com 15 April 2021 Botany Jacques Daléchamps publishes Historia generalis plantarum in Lyon, describing 2,731 plants, a record number for this time. Cryptography Blaise de Vigenère publishes Traicté des chiffres ou secretes manières d'escrire in Paris, describing an autokey cipher of his invention. Exploration July 21 – Thomas Cavendish sets out from Plymouth in the Desire on the first deliberately planned circumnavigation.Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 0-671-74919-6 261 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun Mathematics Francesco Barozzi publishes Admirandum illud geometricum problema tredecim modis demonstratum quod docet duas lineas in eodem plano designare, a treatise on the construction of parallel lines. Medicine Timothy Bright publishes A Treatise of Melancholie; containing the causes thereof, & reasons of the strange effects it worketh in our minds and bodies: with the phisicke cure, and spirituall consolation... in London. Physics Galileo publishes La Billancetta, describing an accurate balance to weigh objects in air or water.http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/instruments/balance.html Hydrostatic balance The Galileo Project 2008-07-17 Simon Stevin publishes De Beghinselen der Weeghconst in Leiden, discussing static forces; and De Beghinselen des Waterwichts, discussing the weight of water. Zoology Luis Méndez de Torres's Tratado Breve De La Cultivacion y Cura de las Colmenas ("Short Tractate on the Cultivation and Care of Beehives") first observes that hives have a queen bee and not a king as previously thought.Mendez de Torres Luis Tratado Breve De La Cultivacion y Cura de las Colmenas 2008 Editorial Maxtor Spain 9788497614757 76 Births February 26 – Niccolò Cabeo, Italian polymath (died 1650) December 6 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (died 1670)Niccolò Zucci - Italian astronomer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niccolo-Zucchi Encyclopedia Britannica 5 April 2018 en John Mason, English explorer (died 1635) Giovanni de Galliano Pieroni, Italian military engineer and astronomer (died 1654) approx. date – Guy de La Brosse, French physician and botanist (died 1641) Deaths January 9 – Paul Wittich, German astronomer and mathematician (born c. 1546) January 22 - Louis Duret, French physician (born 1527) May 29 – Adam Lonicer, German botanist (born 1528) June 1 − Martín de Azpilcueta, Spanish theologian and economist (born 1491) October 19 – Ignazio Danti, Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1536) References Category:16th century in science Category:1580s in science