The year 1576 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents

• Astronomy
• Botany
• Exploration
• Geophysics
• Births
• Deaths
• References

Astronomy

• August 8 – Work begins on Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory on Hven in Øresund. ^{[1] [2]}

Botany

• Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, one of the earliest Floras of the Iberian Peninsula. ^{[3] [4]}
• 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. ^[3]

Geophysics

• Robert Norman measures magnetic dip. ^{[3] [5]}

Births

• Salomon de Caus, French mechanical engineer (died 1626)
• Angelo Sala Italian doctor and early iatrochemist born in Venice (died 1637)

Deaths

• June 2 – Volcher Coiter, Dutch anatomist (born 1534)
• September 21 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician (born 1501)
• Richard Eden, English alchemist and translator of geographical works (born c.1520)

References