1577 in science

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The year 1577 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

• The Istanbul observatory of Taqi al-Din is completed.
• The Great Comet of 1577 is seen. Tycho Brahe is able to discover from his observations that comets and similar objects travel above the Earth's atmosphere.

Mechanics

• Guidobaldo del Monte, Marchese del Monte, publishes Mechanicorum Liber in Pisa.

Technology

• English race-built galleon Revenge launched at the Royal Dockyard, Deptford, by Master Shipwright Mathew Baker.

Births

• October 3 - Fortunio Liceti, Italian Aristotelian scientific polymath (d. 1657)

Deaths

• Adam von Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (b. 1528)