1585 in science

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The year 1585 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Exploration

• John Davis reaches Baffin Island.

Mathematics

• John Blagrave publishes The Mathematical Jewel, showing the making and most excellent use of a singular instrument so called, in that it performeth with wonderful dexterity whatever is to be done either by quadrant, ship, circle, cylinder, ring, dial, horoscope, astrolabe, sphere, globe or any such like heretofore devised.
• Simon Stevin publishes De Thiende, introducing a form of decimal fraction.

Deaths

• March 10 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)
• Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Arab astronomer and inventor (b. c.1526)