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Science on the 30th of November 1585 in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1585 Lyon	science	Lyon (botany) Jacques Daléchamps publishes Historia generalis plantarum in Lyon, describing 2,731 plants, a record number for this time.	0
30 Nov 1585 Blaise de Vigenère	science	Blaise de Vigenère (cryptography) Blaise de Vigenère publishes Traicté des chiffres ou secretes manières d'escrire in Paris, describing an autokey cipher of his invention.	0
30 Nov 1585 Francesco Barozzi	science	Francesco Barozzi (mathematics) Francesco Barozzi publishes Admirandum illud geometricum problema tredecim modis demonstratum quod docet duas lineas in eodem plano designare, a treatise on the construction of parallel lines.	0
30 Nov 1585 Timothy Bright	science	Timothy Bright (medicine) Timothy Bright publishes A Treatise of Melancholie; containing the causes thereof, & reasons of the strange effects it worketh in our minds and bodies: with the phisicke cure, and spirituall consolation... in London.	0
30 Nov 1585 Galileo	science	Galileo (physics) Galileo publishes La Billancetta, describing an accurate balance to weigh objects in air or water.	0
30 Nov 1585 Simon Stevin	science	Simon Stevin (physics) Simon Stevin publishes De Beghinselen der Weeghconst in Leiden, discussing static forces; and De Beghinselen des Waterwichts, discussing the weight of water.	0
30 Nov 1585 John Mason	science	birth John Mason John Mason, English explorer (died 1635)	0
30 Nov 1585 Giovanni de Galliano Pieroni	science	birth Giovanni de Galliano Pieroni Giovanni de Galliano Pieroni, Italian military engineer and astronomer (died 1654)	0

29th November 1585 1st December 1585

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