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1555 in science

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The year 1555 CE in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Biology

  • Pierre Belon publishes L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux, a pioneering work in the comparative anatomy of birds.

Exploration

  • Richard Eden publishes The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, a translation into English of parts of Pietro Martire d'Anghiera's De orbe novo decades, the Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés work Natural hystoria de las Indias and others.
  • Guillaume Le Testu's Cosmographie Universelle selon les navigateurs, tant anciens que modernes contains maps of Terra Australis.

Mathematics

  • Petrus Ramus publishes Arithmétique.
  • First German translation of Euclid's elements by Johann Scheubel.

Births

  • June 13 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian astronomer (died 1617)
  • Andreas Libavius, German physician (died 1616)

Deaths

  • January 14 – Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (born 1478)
  • May 25 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (born 1508)
  • June 23 – Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (born 1470)
  • August 8 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (born 1494)
  • October 5 – Edward Wotton, English zoologist (born 1492)
  • November 21 – Georgius Agricola, German metallurgist (born 1490)
  • Petrus Gyllius, French traveller and ichthyologist (born 1490)

References

References

  1. Grun, Bernard. (1991). "The Timetables of History". Simon & Schuster.
  2. Hadfield, Andrew. (2004). "Eden, Richard (c.1520–1576)". Oxford University Press.
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