1561 in science

none 1561 science 1561 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.Andrew Hadfield Eden, Richard (c.1520–1576) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8454 10.1093/ref:odnb/8454 2011-12-12 Medicine and physiology Gabriele Falloppio publishes Observationes anatomicae in Venice, the only work of his printed during his lifetime.Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 0-671-74919-6 247 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun 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 Category:1561 Category:16th century in science Category:1560s in science