1556 in science

none 1556 science 1556 The year 1556 CE in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Astronomy and earth sciences January 23 – Shaanxi earthquake in China.International Association of Engineering Geology International Congress Proceedings 1990 90-6191-664-X September 2018 September 2018 September 2018 September 2018 February – Great Comet of 1556 becomes visible in Europe.Seargent David The Greatest Comets in History: Broom Stars and Celestial Scimitars New York Springer Science+Business Media 2009 https://books.google.com/books?id=DFgMAaU3vA8C 978-0-387-09512-7 Publication of Georgius Agricola's textbook on metal mining and processing, De re metallica (posthumously, at Basel).Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 0-671-74919-6 245 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun Minas de Ríotinto in Huelva, Andalusia, rediscovered. Life sciences Publication in Rome of Juan Valverde de Amusco's Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano, including Realdo Colombo's discovery of pulmonary circulation. Publication of the standard reference work on marine animals, Libri de piscibus marinis in quibus verae piscium effigies expressae sunt by Guillaume Rondelet, Chancellor of the University of Montpellier; his anatomical drawing of a sea urchin is the earliest extant depiction of an invertebrate.A to Z of marine scientists Charton Barbara Infobase Publishing 2003 978-0-8160-4767-3 Rondelet's Methodus de materia medicinali et compositione medicamentorum Palavii is also published. Cholera outbreak in Oran. Births February 21 – Sethus Calvisius, German musician and astronomer (died 1615) August 24 – Sophia Brahe, Danish astronomer (died 1643) Deaths November 10 – Richard Chancellor, English Arctic explorer (drowned at sea) (born c. 1521) 'Denis Zachaire', French alchemist (born 1520) References Category:16th century in science Category:1550s in science