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1558 in science

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The year 1558 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Economics

  • November – Thomas Gresham states Gresham's law.

Exploration

  • English explorer Anthony Jenkinson travels from Moscow to Astrakhan and Bokhara.

Music

  • Venetian composer Gioseffo Zarlino accurately describes meantone temperament in Le istitutioni harmoniche.

Publications

  • Giambattista della Porta publishes the popular science book Magia Naturalis in Naples.
  • First publication of Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt's 13th century Epistola de magnete, edited by Achilles Gasser and printed in Augsburg.

Awards

  • September 4 – John Feild receives a confirmation of arms in England and the grant of a crest allusive to his attainments in astronomy.

Births

  • Robert Alaine, English astronomer (died 1603)
  • André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (died 1609)
  • Olivier van Noort, Dutch circumnavigator (died 1627)

Deaths

  • March 6 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (born 1476)
  • March 6 – Fray Marcos de Niza, Savoyard Franciscan explorer (born c. 1495)
  • October 21 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian-born polymath (born 1484)
  • Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497)
  • Robert Recorde, Welsh-born physician and mathematician (born c. 1512)
  • approx. date
    • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish anthropologist (born c. 1488/90)

References

References

  1. Grun, Bernard. (1991). "The Timetables of History". Simon & Schuster.
  2. Selgin, George. (2010-02-01). "Gresham's Law". Economic History Association.
  3. Sykes, Percy. (1921). "A History of Persia". Macmillan and Company.
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