1586 in science

Overview of the events of 1586 in science

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The year 1586 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

## Astronomy

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* The last time Mercury and Venus transit the sun at the same time.[1]

## Botany

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* Jacques Daléchamps publishes Historia generalis plantarum in Lyon, describing 2,731 plants, a record number for this time.

## Cryptography

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* Blaise de Vigenère publishes Traicté des chiffres ou secretes manières d'escrire in Paris, describing an autokey cipher of his invention.

## Exploration

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* July 21 – Thomas Cavendish sets out from Plymouth in the Desire on the first deliberately planned circumnavigation.[2]

## Mathematics

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* 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

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* 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

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* Galileo publishes La Billancetta, describing an accurate balance to weigh objects in air or water.[3]
* Simon Stevin publishes De Beghinselen der Weeghconst in Leiden, discussing static forces; and De Beghinselen des Waterwichts, discussing the weight of water.

## Births

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* February 26 – Niccolò Cabeo, Italian polymath (died 1650)
* December 6 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (died 1670)[4]
* 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

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* 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

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1. ^ "Venus to cross face of sun in a once-in-a-lifetime event in June". m.digitaljournal.com. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
2. ^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 261. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
3. ^ "Hydrostatic balance". The Galileo Project. Retrieved 2008-07-17.
4. ^ "Niccolò Zucci - Italian astronomer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

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