1583 in science
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Overview of the events of 1583 in science
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The year 1583 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Botany
[edit ]- Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum stirpium per Pannonias observatorum Historiae, the earliest book on Alpine flora.[1]
Mathematics
[edit ]- Thomas Fincke's Geometria rotundi is published, introducing the terms tangent and secant for trigonometric functions.
- Johann Thomas Freigius' Quaestiones geometricae et stereometricae Euclidis is published in Basel following his death (January 16) from plague.
Physiology and medicine
[edit ]- Georg Bartisch's Ophthalmodouleia, Das ist Augendienst is published in Dresden, the first modern work on ophthalmology.
Births
[edit ]- February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1656)
Deaths
[edit ]- December 31 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (born 1524)
References
[edit ]- ^ Egmond, Florike (2010). The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610. London: Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 1-84893-008-9.