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1561 in science

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The year 1561 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Cartography and navigation

  • Bartolomeu Velho produces a Carta General do Orbe for Sebastian of Portugal.
  • Richard Eden translates Martín Cortés de Albacar's Arte de navigar as The Arte of Navigation which becomes the first manual of navigation in English.

Medicine and physiology

  • Gabriele Falloppio publishes Observationes anatomicae in Venice, the only work of his printed during his lifetime.
  • Ambroise Paré publishes Anatomie universelle du corps humain and La méthode curative des playes et fractures de la test humaine in Paris.
  • Smallpox epidemic in Chile.

Births

  • January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (died 1656)
  • January 22 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher of science (died 1626)
  • March 29 – Sanctorius, Istrian physiologist (died 1636)
  • August 4 – John Harington, English inventor (died 1612)
  • August 24 – Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German trigonometrist (died 1613)
  • August 25 – Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (died 1632)
  • September 29 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (died 1615)
  • October 8 (bapt.) – Edward Wright, English mathematician (died 1615)

Deaths

References

References

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