The year 1575 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Events Leiden University is founded.
Astronomy Cornelius Gemma is credited with publishing the first scientific illustration of the aurora, in his discussion of the 1572 supernova.University of Oklahoma Libraries, History of Science Collections, Recent Acquisitions, "The First Book Printed on Tycho Brahe's Printing Press at Uraniborg: Diarium, 1586," The Lynx 2 (November 2005), p. 9 online with Gemma's illustration.
Geology December 16 – Valdivia earthquake in Chile.
Mathematics Guilielmus Xylander uses parallel vertical lines to indicate equality.
Medicine First publication of Ambroise Paré's collected works, Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré, in Paris, including some of the earliest descriptions of forensic medicine.
Publications Cornelius Gemma publishes in Antwerp.
Deaths Tomás de Mercado, Spanish economist and theologian (born 1525) Costanzo Varolio, Italian anatomist and a papal physician to Gregory XIII (born 1543)
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