1555 in science

none thumb | right | alt=Scan of two book pages, one with an illustration of a human skeleton and the other with an illustration of a bird skeleton. The skeletons are labelled with letters and explanations spear above and below the illustrations. | Pierre Belon’s skeleton of a bird and a human being – the first example of comparative anatomy is published 1555 science 1555 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.Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 0-671-74919-6 245 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun 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.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 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 Category:1555 Category:16th century in science Category:1550s in science