1558 in science

none 1558 science 1558 The year 1558 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Economics November – Thomas Gresham states Gresham's law.Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 0-671-74919-6 247 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grunGeorge Selgin George Selgin Gresham's Law http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/selgin.gresham.law EH.net Encyclopedia Economic History Association 2010-02-01 2012-02-06 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130317073119/http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/selgin.gresham.law 2013-03-17 Exploration English explorer Anthony Jenkinson travels from Moscow to Astrakhan and Bokhara. He is the first Englishman to note that the Amu Darya changed course to start flowing into the Aral Sea.Sykes Percy A History of Persia 1921 Macmillan and Company London 64 http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7307/view/1/64/ 2021-10-15 2013-10-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20211015230135/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7307/view/1/64/ dead Music Venetian composer Gioseffo Zarlino accurately describes meantone temperament in it Le istitutioni harmoniche. Publications Giambattista della Porta publishes the popular science book Magia Naturalis in Naples. First publication of Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt's 13th century Epistola de magnete, edited by Achilles Gasser and printed in Augsburg. Awards September 4 – John Feild receives a confirmation of arms in England and the grant of a crest allusive to his attainments in astronomy. Births Robert Alaine, English astronomer (died 1603) André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (died 1609) Olivier van Noort, Dutch circumnavigator (died 1627) Deaths March 6 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (born 1476) March 6 – Fray Marcos de Niza, Savoyard Franciscan explorer (born c. 1495) October 21 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian-born polymath (born 1484) Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497) Robert Recorde, Welsh-born physician and mathematician (born c. 1512) approx. date Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish anthropologist (born c. 1488/90) References Category:1558 Category:16th century in science Category:1550s in science