1546 in science
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The year 1546 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Botany
- Hieronymus Bock publishes the second, illustrated, edition of his flora of Germany, the Kreutterbuch.
Medicine
- Antonio Musa Brassavola of Ferrara publishes the first definitely recorded successful tracheostomy.[1]
- Valerius Cordus' pharmacopoeia Dispensatorium published posthumously in Nuremberg.
- Girolamo Fracastoro, in his De Contagione et Contagiosis Morbis (published in Venice), discusses the transmission of infectious diseases and gives the first description of typhus.
- Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia describes the stapes bone of the middle ear.
Births
- December 14 â Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (died 1601).
- date unknown
- Thomas Digges, English astronomer (died 1595)
- Heo Jun, Korean physician (died 1615)
- Katharina Kepler, née Guldenmann, German healer and mother of Johannes Kepler (died 1622)
- approx. date â Paul Wittich, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1586)
Deaths
- Ruy López de Villalobos, Spanish explorer (born 1500)