1581 in science
The year 1581 in science and technology included the following notable events.
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Geophysics
- Robert Norman publishes his observations of magnetic dip in The Newe Attractive (London).[1]
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 phycisian (born 1520).
gollark: A changing magnetic field through an electrical conductor creates a voltage across the conductor. Something like that.
gollark: But it wouldn't be a war crime if it was a peace crime, would it? CHECKMATE, ATHEISTS!
gollark: One must wonder what else it would be.
gollark: You can always use a fake name which isn't *obviously* fake.
gollark: As far as I'm aware the basic principle is just that a force is exerted on current-carrying wires in magnetic fields because the fields interact or something.
References
- Harré, Rom (1981). Great Scientific Experiments. Oxford: Phaidon. pp. 49–56. ISBN 0-7148-2096-2.
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