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
- Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum stirpium per Pannonias observatorum Historiae, the earliest book on Alpine flora.[1]
Mathematics
- 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
- Georg Bartisch's Ophthalmodouleia, Das ist Augendienst is published in Dresden, the first modern work on ophthalmology.
Births
- February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1656)
Deaths
- December 31 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (born 1524)
References
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