The year 1576 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy August 8 – Work begins on Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory on Hven in Øresund.
Botany Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, one of the earliest Floras of the Iberian Peninsula. probable date – Leonhard Rauwolf publishes the herbal , 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.
Geophysics Robert Norman measures magnetic dip.
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)
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