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1581 in science
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The year 1581 in science and technology included the following notable events.
Geophysics
- Robert Norman publishes his observations of magnetic dip in The Newe Attractive (London).[1]
Medicine
- Roderigo Lopez becomes the physician-in-chief to Queen Elizabeth I of England until his death by execution, having been found guilty of plotting to poison her.
Births
- October 9 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (died 1638)
- Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (died 1626).
- approximate – Gaspare Aselli, Italian anatomist (died 1626).
Deaths
- Agatha Streicher, German physician (born 1520).
References
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