1566 in science

none 1566 science 1566 The year 1566 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. Biology Rembert Dodoens publishes la Frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium et aquatilium herbarum, ac eorum quae eo pertinent historia at Antwerp. Civil engineering 1566–67 – Completion of "Stari Most" bridge crossing the Neretva at Mostar by the Ottoman Empire (builder: Mimar Hayruddin). Autumn – Probable completion of the Exeter Canal, the first in England, and with the first use of a pound lock in England (engineer: John Trew of Glamorgan).Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 153–156 0-7126-5616-2Kenneth R. Clew The Exeter Canal Chichester Phillimore 1984 0-85033-544-2 Navigation Pedro Nunes' work on navigation, Petri Nonii Salaciensis Opera, is published. Events December 29 – Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, while studying at the University of Rostock in Mecklenburg, loses part of his nose in a duel with fellow nobleman and relation Manderup Parsberg over a mathematical formula.J. J. O'Connor E. F. Robertson Tycho Brahe http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Brahe.html University of St Andrews 2013-11-26 April 2003Fredric Ihren Tycho Brahe's Nose And The Story Of His Pet Moose http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/nose.html 2013-11-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20141009083843/http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/nose.html 2014-10-09 dead Births Giuseppe Biancani, Italian astronomer (died 1624) Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician (died 1621) Michal Sedziwój, Polish alchemist (died 1636) Caterina Vitale, Maltese pharmacist (died 1619) Deaths May 4 – Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (born 1490) May 10 – Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist (born 1501) July 2 – Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer (born 1503) July 30 – Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (born 1507) References Category:16th century in science Category:1560s in science