1580 in science

Overview of the events of 1580 in science

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The year 1580 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

## Astronomy

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* The Constantinople Observatory of Taqi ad-Din is destroyed by Sultan Selim II.

## Exploration

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* September 26 – Francis Drake in the Golden Hind sails into Plymouth having completed the second circumnavigation of the world, westabout, begun in 1577.

## Medicine

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* Severe outbreak of smallpox in Venezuela: it strikes the Caracas and other Indians in the North and greatly weakens Indian resistance to the Spanish colonizing of the region.[1]

## Geology

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* April 6 – Dover Straits earthquake.[2]

## Births

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* January 12 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (died 1644)[3]
* December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (died 1637)
* Peter Crüger, German polymath (died 1639)
* Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, Snell's law (died 1626)

## Deaths

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* May 3 – Thomas Tusser, English chorister and agriculturalist (born c. 1524)
* September 15 – Friedrich Risner, German mathematician (born c. 1533)
* Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia, Sicilian anatomist (born 1510).

## References

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1. ^ George C. Kohn, Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence : From ancient times to the present, Infobase Publishing, 2007, p. 436.
2. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 160–162\. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
3. ^ "Jan Baptista van Helmont – Belgian scientist". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 3 April 2018.

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