1583 in science
# 1583 in science

The year 1583 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

## Botany

* Carolus Clusius publishes Rariorum stirpium per Pannonias observatorum Historiae, the earliest book on Alpine flora.

## Mathematics

* Thomas Fincke's Geometria rotundi is published, introducing the terms tangent and secant for trigonometric functions.
* Johann Thomas Freigius' Quaestiones geometricae et stereometricae Euclidis is published in Basel following his death (January 16) from plague.

## Physiology and medicine

* Georg Bartisch's Ophthalmodouleia, Das ist Augendienst is published in Dresden, the first modern work on ophthalmology.

## Births

* February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1656)

## Deaths

* December 31 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (born 1524)
