1553 in science

none thumb | right | alt=Miguel Servet, Miguel de Villanueva (1511 - 1553) engraving | Miguel Servet, Miguel de Villanueva (1511 - 1553 1553 science 1553 The year 1553 CE in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Astronomy Leonard Digges publishes his popular English language ephemeris, A General Prognostication.Ronan Colin A. Colin Ronan Leonard and Thomas Digges Journal of the British Astronomical Association 101 6 1991 http://www.chocky.demon.co.uk/oas/diggeshistory.html 2012-01-25 2008-03-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20080327123909/http://www.chocky.demon.co.uk/oas/diggeshistory.html dead Cryptography 'Vigenère cipher' first described by Giovan Battista Bellaso in his book La cifra del. Sig. Giovan Battista Bellaso (Venice). Exploration May 10 – Sir Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancellor set out from the River Thames to seek the Northeast Passage.Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 0-671-74919-6 245 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun August 14 – Willoughby sights what is probably Novaya Zemlya.James McDermott Willoughby, Sir Hugh (d. 1554?) 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29599 2011-10-24 10.1093/ref:odnb/29599 August – Chancellor enters the White Sea and reaches Arkhangelsk. Naturalist Pierre Belon publishes fr Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays étrangèrs (Paris). Conquistador Pedro Cieza de León publishes the es Primera Parte of his es Crónicas del Perú. Physics Venetian mathematician Giambattista Benedetti publishes Resolutio omnium Euclidis problematum, proposing a new doctrine of the speed of bodies in free fall. Physiology and medicine Michael Servetus publishes Christianismi Restitutio, including an account of the circulation of the blood. Publication in Spain of Libro del Exercicio, considered the first book on the benefits of physical exercise for health. Births November 23 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617) Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (d. 1632) Thomas Muffet, English naturalist and physician (d. 1604) Luca Valerio, Italian mathematicianThe Galileo Project - Valerio (Valeri), Luca has 1552, but Baldini and Napolitani proved that he was born in 1553. (d. 1618) Deaths February 19 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511) August 8 – Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) October 27 – Michael Servetus, Aragonese polymath (b. 1511) (executed for heresy) Pierre Desceliers, French cartographer and hydrographer (born c. 1500) References Category:1553 Category:16th century in science Category:1550s in science