1580 in science

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The year 1580 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

• The Istanbul observatory of Taqi al-Din is destroyed by Sultan Selim II.

Exploration

• September 26 - Francis Drake in the Golden Hind sails into Plymouth having completed the second circumnavigation of the world, westabout, begun in 1577.

Geology

• April 6 - Dover Straits earthquake.

Births

• December 1 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
• Peter Crüger, German polymath (d. 1639)
• Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, Snell's law (d. 1626)

Deaths

• May 3 - Thomas Tusser, English chorister and agriculturalist (b. c.1524)
• September 15 - Friedrich Risner, German mathematician (b. c.1533)
• Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia, Sicilian anatomist (b. 1510).